Which outcome arises from GPS satellite clock drift?

A)Positioning error accrues rapidly✓

B)Signal transmission power decreases

C)Atomic clock frequency is altered

D)Satellite orbits become unstable

💡 Explanation

Differential aging due to relativistic effects leads to clock drift; because of spacetime curvature and relative receiver velocity, the *gravitational time dilation* effect accumulates, therefore it introduces positioning errors, rather than orbital instability, and atomic clock mechanism failures.

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Which outcome arises from GPS satellite clock drift?

💡 Explanation

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