The "Landolt NASA Space Mission" will launch a tiny satellite mimicking a star into space named after an astronomer from the Metro East.

This artificial star, with its precisely known photon emission ... of objects using telescopes through a continuously available reference. By illuminating its lasers on the telescopes, it will ...

Here's a look inside NASA's plan to launch an "artificial star" over the U.S. before the end of the decade. The purpose of the so-named Landolt NASA Space Mission is to place a calibrated light ...