NASA Approves Mission to Launch “Artificial Star” for astronomers - "Landolt"

[gary]

Story here :-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/exoplanet-nasa-mission

[strongmanmike]

Rather cool 😎

Mike

[Camelopardalis]

Missed opportunity of providing a public service if it’s not bright enough to collimate with :lol:

[Matthieu]

That's fascinating!

And yes, pity it's not going to be mag 2 or 3 as a static star would have been awesome for collimation though probably not from Australia if it's going to be aligned with the US.

[2CRAZY]

Interesting!!

[Ryderscope]

We have a challenge to see who can be the first to image this new object :P