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Orolia, a resilient positioning, navigation and timing solutions company in France, has secured €70 million in atomic clock contracts that will help keep the Galileo Second Generation system (G2S) on time.
The G2s satellites were contracted by the European Space Agency (ESA), and Orolia will provide the atomic clocks for the first 12 satellites at the close of 2021.
Under the agreement, the new G2S satellites will have three Orolia Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standards (RAFS) and two Orolia atomic clock physics packages integrated with Passive Hydrogen Masers (PHM) from Leonardo.
According to Jean-Charles Chen, Atomic Clock Product Line Director at Orolia, the Galileo system is already the most accurate GNSS system today.
“It is the only system with…