# How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxUCLA
- Speaker: Jill Seubert
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Astronomy and space
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_seubert_how_a_miniaturized_atomic_clock_could_revolutionize_space_exploration)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Ask any deep space navigator like Jill Seubert what makes steering a spacecraft difficult, and they'll tell you it's all about the timing; a split-second can decide a mission's success or failure. So what do you do when a spacecraft is bad at telling time? You get it a clock -- an atomic clock, to be precise. Let Seubert whisk you away with the revolutionary potential of a future where you could receive stellar, GPS-like directions -- no matter where you are in the universe.

## Lectures

1. [How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jill_seubert_how_a_miniaturized_atomic_clock_could_revolutionize_space_exploration/3675b8e4473d), 12 min (TED's player)