Landolt
NASA’s Landolt SmallSat is a planned Astrophysics Pioneers mission that will place an artificial star in orbit to calibrate telescopes and improve absolute measurements of stellar brightness, supernovae, and the expansion of the universe.
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- Landolt MissionLandolt SmallSatArlo Landolt Mission
- Name
- Landolt
- Status
- planned
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- Description
- NASA’s Landolt SmallSat is a planned Astrophysics Pioneers mission that will place an artificial star in orbit to calibrate telescopes and improve absolute measurements of stellar brightness, supernovae, and the expansion of the universe.
- Destination
- Geostationary Earth orbit for an artificial-star photometric calibration source to improve stellar brightness measurements
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- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 19:17:57 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 22, 2026 at 08:25:38 UTC
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