Chinese Journal of Nature ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (1): 54-61.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-9608.2017.01.010

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A beautiful piece of “watch”in Tiangong-2: space atomic clock

QIAO Yongjun,LIU Wuming   

  1. ①Senior Vocational School, Lüliang City, Lüliang 033000, Shanxi Province, China; ②Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2016-11-08 Online:2017-02-25 Published:2017-03-09

Abstract:

The space atomic clock, a beautiful piece of “watch” in Tiangong two, looks up at the deep space, overlooks the earth, explores the vast universe following the golden rule, and gives a detailed description of every inch of the earth mother. It is the first space atomic clock to carry out scientific research of the space laboratory in the world, its precision is also unprecedented with error less than one second in thirty million years. This atomic clock is gestated and developed by Chinese scientists taking a dozen years, which carries our positioning, deep space exploration, verification of general relativity and other research assignments.