Does anybody know why it is taking so long to commission the last batch of 4 sats launched at the end of last year? It took them 6 months to enable the first two. The other two are still unavailable.

Hi I’d bet that the “learning” about atomic clocks is not the only thing going on. Like any organization, they aren’t really very excited about talking about problems they have not solved yet. Bob > On Jul 22, 2017, at 8:37 PM, Mark Sims <holrum@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Does anybody know why it is taking so long to commission the last batch of 4 sats launched at the end of last year? It took them 6 months to enable the first two. The other two are still unavailable. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there.

Hi, You should factor in that they had their operational release date scheduled and announced way before that. As for any release, stability before more features might have been a change of priorities. I'm sure they end up being more relaxed as things settle. Cheers, Magnus On 07/23/2017 04:52 AM, Bob kb8tq wrote: > Hi > > I’d bet that the “learning” about atomic clocks is not the only thing going on. Like any > organization, they aren’t really very excited about talking about problems they have not > solved yet. > > Bob > >> On Jul 22, 2017, at 8:37 PM, Mark Sims <holrum@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Does anybody know why it is taking so long to commission the last batch of 4 sats launched at the end of last year? It took them 6 months to enable the first two. The other two are still unavailable. >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. >