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Old 27th Jun 2014, 15:05
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Eclipse: on page 23 (page 28 of the PDF) of the last report.
Around the equinox, all the satellite in "geostationary" orbit are for a time in the shadow of the Earth, and so have to run on batteries and have their temperature dropping which can induce a frequency drift even if the oscillator is in a special location (in the sat architecture) which try to maintain it constant.
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