Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions requiring extreme precision
The White House wants Nasa to figure out how to tell time on the moon.
A memo sent Tuesday from the head of the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has asked the space agency to work with other US agencies and international agencies to establish a moon-centric time reference system. Nasa has until the end of 2026 to set up what is being called Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).
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