[time-nuts] Project GREAT - Galloping Galileo version

[jimlux]

On 12/8/18 10:58 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <65c07521-6efc-f139-0722-a28b4033038e at earthlink.net>, jimlux writes:
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>> There are folks developing and flying a Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC),
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>> It will be in LEO, but maybe you can see the variation from the Moon and Sun?
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> In LEO for testing ?  Otherwise the name seems a bit grandiose ?
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You take the ride you get, I suspect. I've not talked with the DSAC 
folks in a while.  It might have been a SLS EM-1 originally (to the 
moon), but they decided to go with FH, just so they could get a ride.  I 
seem to recall way back when that they were going to do a "hosted 
payload" on something like Iridium Next or a telecom.  But that might 
also have changed.

Rummaging on the web a bit, I find that DSAC is riding on Orbital Test 
Bed from General Atomic

maybe it will be in a higher than usual LEO (I saw mention of 720km) or 
elliptical?