The data is in for an atomic clock sent to space in 2019 and a JPL scientist explains what the Deep Space Atomic Clock means for the future of GPS and space travel. by Sarah Wells Updated: Feb. 20 ...

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Unless you're planning on doing a little particle physics on your vacation, you probably don't need a travel clock accurate to one billionth of a second. But the real benefit of the Global Atomic ...

An atomic clock that could transform deep-space travel has successfully completed its first test run in space. NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, which launched on a satellite in June 2019 ...

Many modern atomic clocks use oscillations of strontium atoms rather than cesium to measure time; the most precise of these is accurate to within 1/15,000,000,000 of a second. This means that ...

NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, or DSAC for short, counts off the seconds with ticks that are about 50 times more uniform than those of atomic clocks onboard GPS satellites.

In June, the team published a paper in Nature reporting that their clock has extremely low drift, corresponding to a deviation of less than four billionths of a second over the course of 23 days ...

The PHARAO atomic clock is set to fly to the International Space Station in 2016. ... It was designed by CNES, the French space agency, and is expected to travel to the station in two years.

The Deep Space Atomic Clock by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a technology demo aimed at self-flying spacecraft.

By comparing the tick rate of the portable atomic clock on a mountain with a similar clock in a lab in Torino, Italy, the researchers were able to show that the altitude difference between the two ...

For schedule-obsessed travelers like Keith Rola, few things are more important than the travel alarm. The Dallas-area airline pilot doesn't trust wake-up calls and says he can't count on the hotel ...

NASA‘s Deep Space Atomic Clock is almost ready to revolutionize time-keeping on space missions with technology that “will enable one-way navigation” and make “near-real-time navigation of ...