Abstract
Among the areas of application made practicable by the advent of atomic clocks we list the following:
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Space Science: Long-distance tracking and data acquisition from “deep” space probes such as Voyager.
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Radio Astronomy: Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), made possible through a common phase reference.
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Planetary Motion: The dynamics of the Earth as a planet and the variability of the length of the day.
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Radio Navigation: Perhaps the most useful application. Land-based networks Loran-C and Omega, and the satellite-based systems the TRANSIT system, culminating in the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS) and GLONASS.
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Major, F.G. (1998). Applications: Time-Based Navigation. In: The Quantum Beat. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2923-8_18
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