The relativistic Doppler shift in satellite tracking

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Atomic Clocks, Doppler Effect, Frequency Shift, Frequency Standards, Relativistic Effects, Satellite Tracking, Atomic Beams, Cesium, Instrument Errors, Low Noise, Navigation Technology Satellites, Orbit Calculation, Relativity

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The recently launched (June 23, 1977) Navigation Technology Satellite 2 carries aboard it two high-precision cesium beam atomic standards. The frequencies of these standards were preset to agree with similar ground-based oscillators to within a few parts in 10 to the 12th. An analysis of about 4 days of low-noise Doppler tracking revealed a frequency bias between the orbiting clocks and the ground-based clocks at the tracking sites. This observed bias was 4.47 parts in 10 to the 10th, which is consistent with a predicted frequency bias arising from the special relativity time dilation effect coupled with a frequency blue shift predicted by general relativity.

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