You can buy a coin sized chip-scale atomic clock, so it wouldn’t surprise
me.

On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 9:15 AM Mike Puchol <mike@starlink.sx> wrote:

> 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 :-)
>
> Best,
>
> Mike
> On Jun 12, 2021, 16:00 +0200, Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>,
> wrote:
>
>
> Dave Taht <davet@teklibre.net> wrote:
>
> It’s ironic that the device has to have gps in it, and thus should be
> able to provide perfect time to clients directly behind it, isn’t.
>
>
> Couldn't starlink satellites *also* provide a GPS reference?
> They are lower and way more of them...
>
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