<span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">But, yes, indeed, a
requirement for stability over 10K seconds is needed. One use case
is for a mission with a long round-trip light time (on the order of 10’s
of minutes) and/or a long contact time, on the order of several hours.
The stability is needed to maintain knowledge of the carrier (&
tones, if ranging via tones) frequency over those periods. </span>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">The
stability order would increase by an 1 to 1.5 OOM over that used for tau
of 100 seconds. There would also likely be a spec that the increase
be linear or defined strictly by a polynomial, so it can readily and accurately
be modeled.</span></p>
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