{"id":50376,"date":"2024-04-03T21:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50376"},"modified":"2024-04-03T21:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:56:02","slug":"us-directs-nasa-to-create-lunar-time-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50376","title":{"rendered":"US directs NASA to create lunar time standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The White House announced Tuesday it is directing NASA to create a unified time standard for the Moon and other celestial bodies, as governments and private companies increasingly compete in space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the United States keen to set international norms beyond Earth&#8217;s orbit, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) instructed the US space agency to formulate a plan by the end of 2026 for a standard it is calling Coordinated Lunar Time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As NASA, private companies, and space agencies around the world launch missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, it&#8217;s important that we establish celestial time standards for safety and accuracy,&#8221; OSTP Deputy Director for National Security Steve Welby said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He noted how &#8220;time passes differently&#8221; depending on positions in space, offering the example of how time appears to pass more slowly where gravity is stronger, such as near celestial bodies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A consistent definition of time among operators in space is critical to successful space situational awareness capabilities, navigation, and communications,&#8221; Welby said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House announced Tuesday it is directing NASA to create a unified time standard for the Moon and other celestial bodies, as governments and private companies increasingly compete in space. With the United States keen to set international norms beyond Earth&#8217;s orbit, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) instructed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1022],"class_list":["post-50376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-us-directs-nasa-to-create-lunar-time-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}