Moon clock is getting ready: Nasa working to develop Lunar Time Standard

Nasa is spearheading efforts to create a standardized time system for the Moon, following a White House policy directive issued in April...

The agency's Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) program is leading this initiative to develop Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), which will be crucial for future lunar exploration and potentially scalable to other celestial bodies in our solar system...

The proposed lunar time standard will be based on a weighted average of atomic clocks placed on the Moon, similar to how Earth's Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is calculated.. . ) ..

Dr. Ben Ashman, navigation lead for lunar relay development, highlighted the growing need for time standardization as commercial space activities expand and more nations become active on the Moon...

Nasa's SCaN program, which oversees the agency's space communications operations and navigation, will play a key role in implementing this lunar time standard..

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