{"id":207917,"date":"2025-03-06T05:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-tiny-chip-could-be-the-key-to-1000-times-more-accurate-gps"},"modified":"2025-03-06T05:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:18:07","slug":"a-tiny-chip-could-be-the-key-to-1000-times-more-accurate-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-tiny-chip-could-be-the-key-to-1000-times-more-accurate-gps","title":{"rendered":"A Tiny Chip Could Be the Key to 1,000 Times More Accurate GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-tiny-chip-could-be-the-key-to-1000-times-more-accurate-gps.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Optical atomic clocks have the potential to improve timekeeping and GPS<\/p>\n<p>GPS, or Global Positioning System, is a satellite-based navigation system that provides location and time information anywhere on or near the Earth\u2019s surface. It consists of a network of satellites, ground control stations, and GPS receivers, which are found in a variety of devices such as smartphones, cars, and aircraft. GPS is used for a wide range of applications including navigation, mapping, tracking, and timing, and has an accuracy of about 3 meters (10 feet) in most conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optical atomic clocks have the potential to improve timekeeping and GPS GPS, or Global Positioning System, is a satellite-based navigation system that provides location and time information anywhere on or near the Earth\u2019s surface. It consists of a network of satellites, ground control stations, and GPS receivers, which are found in a variety of devices [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1965,1512,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mapping","category-mobile-phones","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}