How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration

Title:: How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration
Speaker:: Jill Seubert
Description:: Ask any deep space navigator like Jill Seubert what makes steering a spacecraft difficult, and they'll tell you it's all about the timing; a split-second can decide a mission's success or failure. So what do you do when a spacecraft is bad at telling time? You get it a clock -- an atomic clock, to be precise. Let Seubert whisk you away with the revolutionary potential of a future where you could receive stellar, GPS-like directions -- no matter where you are in the universe.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 11:20

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