Lacking any kind of precision timekeeper, Galileo literally weighed the moments of his experiments: He allowed water to drip through a narrow pipe during the interval of interest; then he balanced ...

Tsunamis, for instance, are water solitons ... UK’s participation will be in the likes of Galileo following Brexit, which makes portable atomic clocks much more relevant. The UK believes ...

Something strange is going on with the Galileo satellites, and the European Space Agency wants to find out what's causing it. Apparently, ten atomic clocks on board five of the 18 navigation ...

Orolia has been awarded €70 million in two contracts to provide atomic clocks for the first 12 satellites of the Galileo Second Generation System (G2S). The first was from the European Space Agency ...

Artwork: The European Commission is about to place an order for more Galileo spacecraft The onboard atomic clocks that drive the satellite-navigation signals on Europe's Galileo network have been ...

The satellite boasts two rubidium atomic clocks which are accurate to 10 nanoseconds a day that will serve as back-ups for the most accurate clock on orbit — a Passive Hydrogen Maser (PHM) with ...

Europe's beleaguered Galileo satnav has suffered another setback, with clocks failing onboard a number of satellites in space, the European Space Agency said Wednesday. Designed to render Europe ...

Investigators have uncovered the problems behind the failure of atomic clocks onboard satellites belonging to the beleaguered Galileo satnav system, The European Commission Monday. For months ...