alt Hacker NewsStarlink lacks the high precision atomic clocks on board of the satellites, that is also why Starlink needs a GPS fix to bootstrap itself.
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himata4113 • yesterday at 11:08 PM
We have starlink I am sure we can figure it out. Like... launch a better GPS system with one rocket?
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Maybe the starlink clocks could continuously calibrate from gps? Clock drift is usually a slow thing (like thermals). Their inter-satellite data links have all sorts of relative clocking info.