We are unveiling plans for an ambitious lunar laser project: an effort to deploy an ultra-stable, cryogenic laser system directly on the Moon, designed to serve as a master clock and foundational navigation infrastructure for future lunar operations. The initiative has drawn meaningful institutional support, with researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology signing on as co-authors of our foundational research.

The initiative, which we call our Lunar Super-Laser, would place a cryogenic optical laser inside a permanently shadowed crater near one of the Moon's poles. Those regions are among the most thermally stable environments in the Solar System, never warmed by sunlight and insulated by the Moon's lack of atmosphere, offering the conditions required to achieve a frequency precision we believe would surpass anything currently possible on Earth.

As NASA's Artemis program pushes toward a sustained lunar presence and commercial operators begin building out habitats and robotic systems, reliable timekeeping independent of Earth is becoming a real operational requirement. Both NASA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy have flagged the absence of a lunar time standard as a critical gap that needs to be filled. We believe we have a credible path to filling it.