On May 4, 2:37 pm, "David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On symmetry, etc. There are both gravitational and velocity corrections > relative to both Earth and solar system barycentric time amounting to > some 15 ms, but current space missions don't worry much about that. The > mission times are relative to a clock onboard the spacecraft; nothing > else matters. Our Earth-Mars simulations didn't worry about these > effects either. I suspect disciplining an orbiter/rover clock to these > corrections will be dominated by the frequency noise of affordable > oscillators. Maybe not.
Just curious, but did you have to deal with relativistic effects of relative time dilation as the craft speed increased? TIA _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
