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Air Force retired one of GPS’s oldest satellites, a flawed update caused 15 satellites to broadcast UTC timing data that was off by 13 microseconds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Asteroid 2025 TF passed over Antarctica at 00:47:26 UTC ± 18 seconds on October 1, coming within 428 ± 7 km of Earth's surface.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
According to the company's service status dashboard, the incident began at 10:53 UTC.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
LTC would be the space version of the Earth's time standard of UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2024
In early 1972 the organization functioned on the national level with an eight-member Secretariat, including the first secretary who is also the UTC chairman, and a bureau of twenty-one full and seven alternate members.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Donald W. Bernier
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