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    The Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) was a miniaturized, ultra-precise mercury-ion atomic clock for precise radio navigation in deep space. DSAC was designed...
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    An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms. It is based on atoms having different energy levels. Electron...
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    developing three technologies vital to deep space exploration. The "must-have technologies" include a deep space atomic clock, a large solar sail and a more advanced...
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  • 2016-06-22. "Space Optical Clock". Institut für Experimentalphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Retrieved 2017-01-30. "Deep Space Atomic Clock". NASA's...
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    operating the space systems. Having corporations take over orbital operations would also allow NASA to focus all its efforts on deep space exploration and...
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  • pioneered and designed several ion-trap atomic clocks including the physics package for the NASA Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) Technology Demonstration Mission...
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    miniaturized Deep Space Atomic Clock is a linear ion-trap-based mercury ion clock, designed for precise and real-time radio navigation in deep space. The Deep Space...
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    VERITAS (spacecraft) (category Proposed space probes)
    carry the Deep Space Atomic Clock-2 as a secondary payload. The Deep Space Atomic Clock-2 is the successor to the Deep Space Atomic Clock payload flown...
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    in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in space. It was conceived in 1960 as a three-person spacecraft during President...
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  • With a refocussing of the program in 2000, the Deep Space series was renamed "Space Technology". Deep Space 1 – standalone spacecraft testing solar electric...
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    administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the highest-ranking official of NASA, the national space agency of the United States. The administrator...
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    domain: Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) Overview Archived April 12, 2019, at the Wayback Machine NASA Accessed on December 10, 2018 General Atomics Completes...
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    (later the National Space Council), including the Secretaries of State and Defense, the NASA Administrator, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...
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  • for sinking money into the Space Shuttle program, reducing funding available for its long-term missions to Mars and deep space. Human missions to Mars have...
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  • clocks such as the co-trapped aluminum and mercury ion clock confine single or a few ionized atoms within a deep, well-isolated ion trap. In atomic species...
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  • independent scientific advisory committee Deep Space Atomic Clock, an atomic clock for precise radio navigation in deep space Department of Sports, Arts and Culture...
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    board member of the foundation, "Such a clock, if sufficiently impressive and well-engineered, would embody deep time for people. It should be charismatic...
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    incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. "Deep Space Atomic Clock". NASA JPL. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015. This article...
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  • and payloads included Oculus-ASR nanosatellite, GPIM, and the Deep Space Atomic Clock. The STPSat-4 satellite was launched on 2 November 2019 onboard...
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  • protons. By one NASA estimate, for each year that astronauts spend in deep space, about one-third of their DNA will be hit directly by heavy ions. In increasing...
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    causes a latency of about 4.5 hours (one-way). The 70 m (230 ft) NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) dishes are used to relay commands once the spacecraft is...
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    development of space-qualified Indian made atomic clocks was initiated, along with a study and development initiative for an all optical atomic clock (ultra stable...
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    Earthrise (category Photographs of Earth from outer space)
    on evidence presented by transcript and a video produced by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio employee, Ernie Wright. After...
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    Opportunity (rover) (category Space probes decommissioned in 2019)
    (JPL)'s Space Flight Operations Facility to watch final commands being transmitted to Opportunity via the 70-meter (230-foot) dish of the Goldstone Deep Space...
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    International Space Station missions and other Earth orbit missions, while the Block II and III variants were designed for deep-space exploration. Orion's...
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    2018. Shea, Garrett (September 20, 2018). "Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration". NASA. Nelson, Jon. "Viking 1". NASA. Retrieved February...
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    Mars List of Mars orbiters Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes U.S. Space Exploration History on U.S. Stamps "fully fueled orbiter-lander...
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    1921 – May 4, 1992) was an American engineer, scientist and advocate of space exploration, and was the third Administrator of NASA, serving from March...
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  • Mission patch (redirect from Space patch)
    patch. The term space patch is mostly applied to an emblem designed for a crewed space mission. Traditionally, the patch is worn on the space suit that astronauts...
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  • technology subjects. The magazine reported on missions of NASA and other space agencies, as well as present news of relevant research conducted by various...
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