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India's ISRO joins an elite club of space agencies which use a very complex and technical device, a Rubidium atomic clock in their GPS satellites. Only 4 other national space agencies use this atomic clock - USA's NASA, EU's ESA, China's CNSA and Russia's ROSCOSMOS.
NASA is sending an atomic clock into deep space. HowStuffWorks explains how this groundbreaking clock will revolutionize space travel.
NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock is working toward giving far-flung space explorers more autonomy when navigating. In a new paper published in the journal Nature, the mission reports progress in their work to improve the ability of space-based atomic clocks to measure time consistently over long periods. Known as stability, this feature also impacts the operation of GPS satellites that help people navigate on Earth, so this work also has the potential to increase the autonomy of next-generation GPS spacecraft. Spacecraft that venture beyond our Moon rely on communication with ground stations...
New rocket, Firefly's Alpha, may be ready to launch by April By (0) An illustration shows the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the surface of the moon, which is a mission planned in 2023. Image courtesy Firefly Aerospace ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Texas-based Firefly Aerospace plans to launch its new Alpha rocket from California in April and send a lunar lander to the moon by 2023. The 95-foot-high launch vehicle is designed to lift satellite payloads that weigh just over a ton into low-Earth orbit, or slightly lighter loads to a higher orbit. Advertisement Firefly has existed for only four ...
General Atomics, Rocket Lab to Launch Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System Our Bureau 1528 Image for representation. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has signed a contract with Rocket Lab to launch the GA-EMS developed Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite carrying the Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) hosted payload. The contract was awarded to GA-EMS by the United States Space Force’s (USSF) Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) under a USSF Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) delivery order, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA...