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Which increasing risk results within a GPS satellite's atomic clock when its orbital velocity constraint decreases?

A)Positional drift due to computation errors
B)Increased signal interference from Earth
C)Thermal runaway damaging frequency stability
D)Crystal oscillator aging acceleration effect

💡 Explanation

Lower orbital velocity reduces the time dilation effect predicted by general relativity; because the satellite's clock appears to tick faster relative to ground-based clocks, its onboard calculations need correction for spacetime, therefore positional error accumulates, rather than other clock-specific failure modes.

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