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Re:How Do We Prevent War in Space? by _iyig on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:00AM (#24941307)
I can’t speak for the U.S. military, but Google accounted for GPS satellite failure (in response to the actions of a hostile power, solar weather event, or any other reason) in their design of Spanner, which relies on precise time synchronization between geographically-distant data centers. In the Spanner white paper, the atomic clocks used in case of GPS satellite failure are called “Armageddon masters”:

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

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