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Timely arrival of Pharao space clock

ESA has welcomed the arrival of Pharao, an important part of ESAs atomic clock experiment that will be attached to the International Space Station in 2016.
Delivered by Frances CNES space agency, Pharao is accurate to a second in 300 million years, which will allow scientists to test fundamental theories proposed by Albert Einstein with a precision that is impossible in laboratories on Earth.
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PHARAO atomic clock agreement signed by ESA and CNES

Today at the Paris headquarters of the French space agency (CNES), Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, and Thierry Duquesne, CNES Director for Strategy, Programmes and International Relations, signed an agreement that paves the way for the launch of a high-accuracy atomic clock to be attached to the outside of the European Columbus laboratory onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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