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I like the ideas of "solar gravitational lensing telescopes" and "lunar crater radio telescopes". The former would place a telescope extremely far from the sun
by _Microft 6y ago
I like the ideas of "solar gravitational lensing telescopes" and "lunar crater radio telescopes". The former would place a telescope extremely far from the sun and use its gravitational lensing effect, the latter would turn a crater on the moon into a giant radio dish. Here is a link for the latter.
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/lunar_crater_radio_telescope/ https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_...
- rbanffy 6y agoThe Moon could be good place for optical interference - on Earth you need to use fiber (or QHD's) to carry photons from one place to the other, but on the Moon you have a reasonable vacuum so you may be able to get a large base with only mirrors or line-of-sight communications.