Lunar calibration could be used by scientific and commercial satellites.
Credit: NASA
NASA is preparing to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-14 mission its Arcstone cubesat, a 6U satellite that will attempt to use the Moon’s light as a calibration source to increase the accuracy of Earth-monitoring and remote-sensing instruments. The cubesat will attempt to use a spectrometer to...
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