In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jason Rabel" writes: >It's about a week old, but still interesting if you didn't come across the >article yet (like me)... > >The Galileo satellites will have a pair of passive hydrogen masers and a >pair of rubidium clocks in them... > >Ooo la la... ;) > >http://www.gpsdaily.com/reports/Hyper_Accurate_Clocks___The_Beating_Heart_Of >_Galileo_999.html
... provided somebody wants to foot the bill for Galileo in the first place. The "the users will be queueing up to pay for half of the cost through fees" model has just collapsed, and the EU will now have to decide if they want to sink tax money into this particular white whale. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
