Europe's Galileo Navigation Satellites Plagued With Atomic Clock Failures

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Despite progress in understanding the cause, the growing number of failed atomic clocks aboard Galileo satellites may be just part of the price Europe must pay to have an independent positioning, navigation and timing system. Early GPS satellites also suffered from deterioration of their atomic...

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