Airbus DS builds “clock ensemble” to test general theory of relativity
Submit on Thursday, December 4th, 2014 22:55
Airbus Defence and Space said it is creating a “super clock” for the European Space Agency (ESA) that comprises two atomic clocks as well as laser and microwave links to the Earth. The ACES (AtomicClock Ensemble in Space) will run at a precision equal to 1×10-16 a loss of just one second every 300 million years.
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