Hello, you will find a lots of details at: http://tf.nist.gov/ofm/smallclock/index.htm 73, Jean-Louis Oneto OCA GEMINI - Avenue Copernic - 06130 Grasse - France e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brooks Shera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:48 AM Subject: [time-nuts] Chip-scale Atomic Clock !
> The excerpt below from GPS World refers to a Chip-scale atomic clock > being developed by DARPA. > > Does anyone know what technology they might be using for such a clock? > > "Atomic Clock Synchronization > The U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego is > incorporating a chip-scale atomic clock into a new GPS receiver design, > the Navigation Nugget. read more»The Nugget fuses a GPS software-defined > receiver with an inertial measurement unit (IMU), synchronized by an > onboard atomic clock, to create a positioning, navigation, and > timing-sensor suite capable of withstanding impaired and threatened GPS > environments. The chip-scale atomic clock is being developed by Defense > Advanced Research Projects Agency. Adding an atomic clock to the GPS/IMU > combination will help ground forces in canopy or jammed environments and > improve vertical accuracy. A large-scale prototype Navigation Nugget is > expected to be field tested in one year. Space and Naval Warfare Systems > Center, www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/. " > > > > -Brooks > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
