James Camparo of Aerospace Corporation thinks their time is too short. “The effects of frequent stabilization are highly technologically encouraging,” although the clock did not work well in the air, says Camparo, who has a doctorate degree and has not participated in the study. It is hoped that in the next phase of the project, the JPL team will also benefit even more frequently, and improve performance.
Such accurate timing is essential to future celestial leadership. In the meantime, space travel requires all the decisions that have to be made on Earth. Pilots maneuver radio signals in the air and in the back, and lighter clocks can last longer. These measurements are used to calculate information on location, speed, and movement, and the final signal is sent to the space carrier with the rules of how to change directions.
But the time it takes to send messages back and forth is a real limit. For objects that are closer to the moon, the two journeys take only a few seconds, Ely says. But when you go somewhere else, the time required is limited: near Mars, the orbit is about 40 minutes, and near Jupiter, this increases by about an hour and a half. When you travel all the way to Voyager, a satellite that searches the central location, they say, can take days. Farther away in space, it would not be possible and safe to rely on this method, especially if the work is carrying people. (Currently, anonymous services, such as The endurance of the rover is reaching Mars)
The answer, the JPL team says, is to develop weapons and its atomic timing and eliminate the need for ground calculation. The architecture must always receive initial recognition from the Earth, in order to measure its location and direction from time to time. But there will be no reason to restore the mark, because the calculation that occurs afterwards can take place in real time.
So far, this has been impossible. The atomic clocks used on the ground are very large – the size of refrigerators – and current clocks may not be accurate enough to rely on. The JPL team type is the first to be so small that it can fit on a plane and be stable enough for one route to reach.
It can be helpful to walk around too. On Earth, we use GPS, satellites carrying atomic clocks that help us navigate the surface. But according to Ely, the clocks were not very stable – the clocks had to be adjusted twice a day to be accurate to everyone in the world. “If you had a sturdy watch that would not go unnoticed, you could be down to that type of watch,” says Ely. In the future, it is also speculated that more or more humans or robots on the moon or on Mars will need to have their own lighting devices; a GPS-like group of satellites, with tiny atomic clocks, can do this.
Camparo agrees, and says the device could be redesigned for use on Mars or the moon. He states: “It is important to note that when we think of time in the sky, we are often looking at the time atoms.” “However, for every satellite group, there must be a better clock in the satellite’s ground,” since that’s how scientists control the accuracy of clocks in the atmosphere.