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TUBITAK National Metrology Institute (UME) has designed and produced the very first national and domestic lab-type Rubidium-based atomic clock to be used in positioning satellites. UME and TSA  have signed a protocol for ensuring that the atomic clock is qualified for space activities. 

The qualification of the atomic clock for the space-environment must be accomplished first, followed by its transportation into and being tested in space. Optical atomic clocks will increase the accuracy of our country’s national time scale will have increased 100 times fold. The use of optical clocks will pave the way for a re-definition of seconds and other constants in physics as well as other notions in navigation, fast-communication, electronic signatures, new-generation radar systems relativistic geodesy, quantum computers, and many similar areas.