White House orders NASA to develop lunar time standard for celestial bodies
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has directed NASA to develop a unified time standard, called Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), for the moon and other celestial bodies. The LTC will be tied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and will enable cislunar operations. NASA is expected to deliver a strategy to implement the LTC by December 31, 2026, in coordination with the state, commerce, defense, and transportation departments. The new time system must be accurate enough to support precision navigation and science, resilient in the event of lost contact with Earth, and scalable to environments beyond the Earth-moon system. The implementation of new time standards is necessary to address Gravitational Time Dilation, which affects the passage of time under different gravitational conditions. Time dilation is crucial for future space travel to other celestial bodies to ensure coordination with mission controllers on Earth. The development of celestial time standards is seen as important for safety and accuracy as NASA, private companies, and space agencies around the world launch missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
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