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This has actually been proposed before. It’ll be exciting when it’s eventually used.
by pigsty 4y ago
This has actually been proposed before. It’ll be exciting when it’s eventually used.
- pbmonster 4y agoUnfortunately, the focal point is in interstellar space, far past the orbit of Pluto. So even if we'll live to see this project funded, started and launched, there's pretty much no way we'll still be alive once the sensor probe reaches it's duty station. Also, the telescope will be pretty much purpose build to look at one thing. Swiveling the telescope to look at something different or to track a moving object involves moving the sensor probe millions of kilometers across space.
- PaulHoule 4y agoIt seems like an attainable ambition for a scaled down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot and if you built some kind of "gun" that can shoot those things you could should numerous ones out in different directions to observe different targets and definitely have results in years if not weeks instead of decades.