The team hopes a prototype will be ready by late 2025. Related reading: For more about Holly's Optical Atomic Strontium Ion Clock, check out the OASIC project on NASA's website.; For more about ...

An atomic clock, ‘green’ propellant, and a sunlight-surfing sail are headed to space next week. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is sending a bunch of new technologies to orbit ...

Space Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to destruction. A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space.

Courtesy of Ball. When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched in late 2021 the work for some scientists was just beginning. As the observatory reached its deep-space destination, its 18 hexagonal ...

The European Space Agency’s planned eLISA observatory, due to launch in 2034, is designed to detect a different kind of wave: millihertz-range, or low-frequency, gravitational waves generated by ...

While clock synchronization is currently done using GPS, this protocol could make it possible to precisely synchronize clocks in places where GPS access is limited, like the moon or deep space.

Relativity: Clock in Outer Space. 3 minute read. TIME. June 14, 1968 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... During its annual elliptical trip through space, the earth reaches its maximum speed each January, ...

Three teams at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are at work to push timekeeping for space exploration to new levels of precision. Phys.org Story by Science X staff ...