But in outer space, critical functions like communication and navigation require even greater clock accuracy, down to a billionth of a second — or more. That's why atomic physicists at NASA want ...

The achievement would allow today's atomic clocks to be replaced with a nuclear clock that would be the most accurate clock to ever exist, allowing advances like deep space navigation and ...

Physicists have been trying for decades to escape clock ... its best atomic partner, the technology could soon shatter precision timekeeping records and vastly improve GPS and deep-space navigation.

Since the early 2010s Ely has been engineering the next leap in navigation technology: The Deep Space Atomic Clock – an extremely stable device that uses mercury atoms and weighs a fraction of its ...

That is much closer to the sun than what we are proposing here.” NASA’s 2019 Deep Space Atomic Clock mission demonstrated the best atomic clock in space to date, Safronova said, but different ...

But the project, decades in preparation, will only operate for a few years before it burns up as the International Space Station deorbits at the end of the decade. The Atomic Clock Ensemble in ...

Join us on Wednesday, March 5 at noon Pacific for the Deep Space DX Hack Chat with David Prutchi! In the past 70-odd years, the world’s space-faring nations have flung a considerable amount of ...

Once launched into space, the optical frequency comb can be utilised for advanced PNT, deep ... atomic clocks with conventional electronics. QuantX Labs has been pursuing a “step-change in clock ...

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

stock trading and even space navigation. In today's encore episode, hosts Emily Kwong and Regina G. Barber learn how to build a better clock. In order to do that, they ask: How do atomic clocks ...