A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude NASA plane to measure the Moon’s brightness and eventually help Earth observing sensors make more accurate measurements.
Satellite II) is scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan atop a Japanese H-IIA launcher on 14 December 2002 at 1.31 a.m. GMT. ADEOS-II is the follow-on to ADEOS-I and ...