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Coordinated Lunar Time
Coordinated Lunar Time or LTC is a proposed primary lunar time standard for the Moon. In early April 2024, NASA was asked by the White House to work alongside domestic and international agencies for the purpose of establishing a unified standard time for the Moon and other celestial bodies by 2026. The White House's request, led by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, called for a "Coordinated Lunar Time", which was first proposed by the European Space Agency in early 2023. Currently, the time on the Moon is different for each country involved. As a result, activities on the Moon are coordinated using the time zone of where a mission's headquarters is based. For example, the Apollo missions utilized the Central Time Zone (CDT) as the missions were controlled from Houston, Texas. History As part of an ongoing global billionaire space race and a wider international space race between the United States and China, a need exists for a universal time-keeping benchmark so that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunar Time
Timekeeping on the Moon is an issue of synchronized human activity on the Moon and contact with such. The two main differences to timekeeping on Earth is the length of a day on the Moon, being the lunar day or lunar month, observable from Earth as the lunar phases, and the differences between Earth and the Moon of how differently fast time progresses, with 24 hours on the Moon being 58.7 orders of magnitude (time), microseconds (0.0000587 seconds) faster, resulting from the different masses of the Moon and Earth, the effect being called gravitational time dilation. As of early 2024, there is no lunar time standard. Instead, the time on the Moon is different for each country involved. Thus, American activities on the Moon run on the time zone of their mission control centre, while Chinese activities on the Moon run on China Standard Time. As more countries are active on the Moon and interact with each other, a different, unified system will be needed. In 2024, the White House as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artemis Program
The Artemis program is a robotic and human Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) along with three partner agencies: European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The Artemis program intends to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The major components of the program are the Space Launch System (SLS), Orion spacecraft, Lunar Gateway space station and the commercial Human Landing Systems. The program's long-term goal is to establish a permanent base camp on the Moon and facilitate human missions to Mars. The Artemis program is a collaboration of government space agencies and private spaceflight companies, bound together by the Artemis Accords and supporting contracts. As of July 2022, twenty-one countries have signed the accords, including traditional U.S. space partners (such as the Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
