[time-nuts] Space mission comes to an end becuase of a "computer time tagging" problem

[Jim Lux]

On 9/21/13 6:03 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
> On 09/21/2013 02:52 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> So it's a pretty good AT cut crystal without any compensation of heating. Not quite a cheap wrist watch, but not a BVA in a dewar flask either.
> The environmental perturbations should go quite slow most of the time,
> as it glides in the void slowly away and often have a fairly stable
> direction with regards to the sun. If they have spin-rotation it
> complicates things a bit.
>
> Decent dewar-flask with better background radiation and one major heat
> source that you track for the solar panels.
>

Yeah, there's jokes about why are they obsessing about hermetic seals on 
components when we're going to be operating in a harder vacuum than you 
can easily achieve on earth. The outside of the package probably has a 
lower pressure than inside the package.