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← ScienceWhich 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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