Research Progress

​New Method Helps to Improve the Accuracy and Integrity of LEO Orbit Predictions

An international research team from the National Time Service Center(NTSC), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), and Curtin University, Australia, proposed a novel method to improve the accuracy and integrity of LEO orbit predictions.

07 27, 2025
NTSC Research Team Realizes Strontium Optical Lattice Clock with Uncertainty of 2×10-18

​Recently, the Strontium optical lattice clock research team led by Prof. CHANG Hong from the National Time Service Center (NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) successfully developed a strontium optical lattice clock with both frequency stability and systematic uncertainty better than 2×10⁻¹⁸.

06 10, 2025
NTSC Researchers Observed Time Crystal in Spin Maser

A joint research team of the National Time Service Center (NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University observed time crystal in a spin maser system.

05 09, 2025
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Events

HZKUAS and NTSC Signed Cooperation MoU

A delegation from Hrvatsko Zagorje Krapina University of Applied Sciences (HZKUAS), led by Dean Nenad Sikirica and Dr. Miksa Marko, visited National Time Service Center (NTSC), Chinese Academy of Sciences on August 12-13, 2025, culminating in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) after in-depth discussion with Navigation and Communication Research Division.

​NTSC Established Time Traceability and GNSS Timing Monitoring and Evaluation System for Pakistan Satellite-Based Augmentation System

Developed by the research team of the department of Time and Frequency Measurement and Control, the National Time Service Center (NTSC)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the "Pakistan MM1 Project Satellite-based Augmentation System (SBAS) timing subsystem " passed the test in January this year, and began to provide stable service in Pakistan in August after two years of development.

NTSC organized BeiDou International GNSS Training Workshop in Nigeria

From 5th to 9th August, 2024, the National Time Service Center (NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) and The United Nations African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education - English (UN-ARCSSTE-E) jointly organized the International BeiDou/GNSS Training Workshop in Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, which established BeiDou’s closer technical exchange and communication with African countries in satellite navigation field.

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