Why does NASA need to use atomic clocks in space?

When it comes to navigation in outer space, keeping precise time is incredibly important, that's why NASA needs to use ...
New Scientist

Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to destruction

The most accurate clock in space launches within days and will begin building a highly synchronised network out of the best clocks on Earth. But the project, decades in preparation, will only operate ...
Forbes

SpaceX Launches Atomic Clocks With Lasers To Test Einstein Theory

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Two cutting-edge atomic clocks — the most accurate ever ...
NPR

To explore deep space, scientists say we'll need better clocks. Here's why

It's Memorial Day, Short Wavers. This holiday, we bring you a meditation on time ... and clocks. There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth. We depend ...
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10 Atomic Clocks Connected Across 6 Countries In Most Ambitious Timekeeping Experiment Ever

EUROPE — Every clock in your house probably tells a slightly different time. Now picture those clocks as the most precise instruments humanity has ever built, so accurate that they wouldn’t lose or ...
NPR

To explore deep space, we'll need better clocks. Here's why

Every single day, humans rely on hundreds of hidden clocks. GPS location, Internet stability, stock trading, power grid management ... all rely on atomic clocks in order to work. Many of those clocks ...