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Amongst other things, the clocks need to be corrected for relativistic effects.

Due to the net effect of both kinetic and gravitational time dilation, clocks onboard a satellite advance more quickly than they would on Earth (when observed from Earth).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Globa...



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