Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions requiring extreme precision

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  • pelya@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    When you are measuring precise distance to the Moon using lasers, 50 microseconds is about 1.5 kilometers.

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      7 months ago

      Except the light is also affected by time dilation so surely it wouldn’t matter.

      It would only matter if you were measuring a distance between a satellite and the surface.