[time-nuts] Galileo satellites to have passive hydrogen masers!

[Rob Kimberley]

I never understood how the PPP (Public Private Partnership) model was ever
going to work on Galileo. The recent "drop out" of private funding proves my
point. Unfortunately the EU (another white elephant or whale!) will continue
to pump taxpayers hard earned money into this system to save face. 

Cheers

Rob Kimberley 

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp
Sent: 20 May 2007 04:54
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Galileo satellites to have passive hydrogen masers!

In message <000001c79a91$a9d7b510$1c02a8c0 at Inspiron>, "Jason Rabel" writes:

>It's about a week old, but still interesting if you didn't come across 
>the article yet (like me)...
>
>The Galileo satellites will have a pair of passive hydrogen masers and 
>a pair of rubidium clocks in them...
>
>Ooo la la... ;)
>
>http://www.gpsdaily.com/reports/Hyper_Accurate_Clocks___The_Beating_Hea
>rt_Of
>_Galileo_999.html

... provided somebody wants to foot the bill for Galileo in the first place.
The "the users will be queueing up to pay for half of the cost through fees"
model has just collapsed, and the EU will now have to decide if they want to
sink tax money into this particular white whale.

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