NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives
NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives
www.nasa.gov NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives - NASA
NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC)
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Will your lunar server have the UTC or LTC clock?
I'm trying to understand the use case.
Day + night on the Luna have length of ~ 30 days.Time moves at a different speed due to the moon's reduced gravity. It's not just the length of a day.
I'd assume that's already a bigger problem for satellites in geostationary orbit then?
Yes, but at least there they still use "Earth time", just slowed down. For the moon it gets a little bit more complicated I guess.
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