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Re: Rockwell to Develop GPS Backup
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Oct 14, 15:48 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Oct 14, 15:48 -0700
Alejandro,
See this link which describes picosecond laser timing for ranging of satellites to the mm. Not sure how this would affect sychronization though.
http://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/timing/hamel_spie3865-05.pdf
Greg Rudzinski
From: Alejandro Purgue
Date: 2015 Oct 14, 16:57 -0400Can anyone shed some light as to why is important to a achieve picosecond time synchronization?For this third technical element, Rockwell Collins is tasked with developing multifunction communication system solutions that yield DARPA STOIC objective picosecond-accurate time transfer and enable GPS-levels of relative positioning accuracy in contested environments.
-----------------------Alejandro Purgue
