NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives
NASA will collaborate with U.S. federal government stakeholders, partners, and worldwide requirements companies to develop a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) following a policy regulation from the White House in April. The company's Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) program is leading efforts on producing a collaborated time, which will make it possible for a future lunar community that might be scalable to other places in our planetary system.
The lunar time will be figured out by a weighted average of atomic clocks at the Moon, comparable to how researchers compute Earth's worldwide acknowledged Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Precisely where at the Moon is still to be figured out, given that present analysis suggests that atomic clocks put at the Moon's surface area will appear to...