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This weekend a second satellite for European GPS-like project Galileo has launched to the Earth’s orbit carrying a very accurate two rubidium atomic clock.
The satellite’s build atomic clock is accurate to a 10 nanoseconds a day that is the most accurate clock on orbit.
In the near future by 2010 the European Union will extend the [...]

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With big oil money flowing into Russia’s economy, it has seemed that the country’s space program would benefit from the largess. But at the moment a top Kremlin official has ordered that space exploration be put on the hold until the country’s Global Positioning System (GPS) competitor – Glonass truly begins operational.

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