NASA's Innovative Atomic Clock Can Transform The Future of Deep Space Exploration

NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock is almost ready to revolutionize time-keeping on space missions with technology that "will enable one-way navigation" and make "near-real-time navigation of deep space probes possible," according to a study published in Nature on Wednesday.On current missions, spacecrafts that travel beyond the Moon must rely on two-way communication with stations on Earth in order to keep their clocks up to date, which allows the capsule to determine its location and its designate...