2024-04-10 14:53:29
The White House has asked the US space agency to establish a specific time zone for the satellite, in preparation for lunar missions planned in the coming years. With LéNA, discover the best of European journalism. Article reserved for subscribers
By Anna Lombardi (“La Repubblica”) Published on 04/10/2024 at 4:53 p.m. Reading time: 4 min
The question asked by Arati Prabhakar, engineer of Indian origin at the head of OSTP (the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy), is far from trivial: what time is it on the Moon ? She tasked NASA with “establishing a standardization of time on and around celestial bodies other than Earth.” In other words, the goal is to define a lunar time zone by December 2026.
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