<div dir="auto">You can buy a coin sized chip-scale atomic clock, so it wouldn’t surprise me. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 9:15 AM Mike Puchol <<a href="mailto:mike@starlink.sx">mike@starlink.sx</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<div dir="auto">The basis for the GPS time sync is an atomic clock on board each satellite. I very much doubt Starlink is placing one of those in their birds :-)</div>
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Mike</div></div><div>
<div name="messageReplySection">On Jun 12, 2021, 16:00 +0200, Michael Richardson <<a href="mailto:mcr@sandelman.ca" target="_blank">mcr@sandelman.ca</a>>, wrote:<br>
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Dave Taht <<a href="mailto:davet@teklibre.net" target="_blank">davet@teklibre.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">It’s ironic that the device has to have gps in it, and thus should be<br>
able to provide perfect time to clients directly behind it, isn’t.<br></blockquote>
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Couldn't starlink satellites *also* provide a GPS reference?<br>
They are lower and way more of them...<br>
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