How NASA’s portable atomic clock could revolutionize space travel
A prototype timepiece will spend a year orbiting the Earth as scientists monitor its performance
TIMING IS EVERYTHING NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock (illustrated with the spacecraft that will carry it) is set to launch for a yearlong test flight in low-Earth orbit. The timepiece could one day enable self-driving spacecraft and GPS-like systems on other worlds.
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