[time-nuts] Deep Space Atomic Clock -- mission complete

Keith E. Brandt, MD, MPH keith.brandt at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 14:42:33 UTC 2021


Time has run out for a NASA atomic clock experiment in space. 
<https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/working-overtime-nasas-deep-space-atomic-clock-completes-mission> 
JPL said it shut down the Deep Space Atomic Clock last month after 
running for more than double its planned one-year lifetime. The atomic 
clock, a payload on the Orbital Test Bed spacecraft launched on the 
STP-2 mission in June 2019, demonstrated the accuracy in timing needed 
to use it for deep space navigation. [NASA/JPL]

--Keith





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