Celestial Time Standardization Act
Reported from committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Apr 29, 2025
What it does
The Celestial Time Standardization Act would require NASA’s Administrator to develop a coordinated lunar time standard to support future operations on and around the Moon and other celestial bodies, in consultation with federal agencies, private and academic sectors, and international partners. The bill emphasizes the need for a time system that is traceable to Coordinated Universal Time, accurate for precision navigation, resilient to communication delays with Earth, and scalable beyond the Earth-Moon system. Within two years of enactment, NASA must brief the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the strategy,…
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