In 1955, the first cesium beam clock paved the way towards high performance atomic clocks and completely changed the impact of time and frequency domain on science and technology. The basic postulate is that atomic properties are invariant in space and time. The technical improvements gave birth to permanently increased performances - roughly by a factor of 10 every 10 years - and, since the beginning of the seventies, to many unexpected applications such as GPS, which associates space and clocks. During the eighties, the development of atom cooling by laser radiation made it possible to obtain a new step in the clock performance by means of atomic fountains. The ultimate improvement to be obtained in microwave atomic clocks with cold atoms will be in microgravity environment with PHARAO, French acronym for 'Project of atomic clock using in orbit atom cooling'. It will be the heart of the ACES - Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space - mission aiming at the test of fundamental theories and of new space technologies, the time and frequency transfer with outstanding accuracy.


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    Titel :

    Temps et micro-gravite: le projet PHARAO-ACES


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Zeitmessung und Mikrogravität: das Projekt PHARAO-ACES


    Beteiligte:


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2009


    Format / Umfang :

    7 Seiten, 7 Bilder



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Französisch





    PHARAO LASER Desing and Performances

    Corlay, G. / European Space Agency / Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2006


    ACES Transition

    P. Prochnicki | NTIS | 2011


    ACES Instrument

    Abigail Corbett / Michael Obland / Bing Lin | NTRS