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Is building a Kilometer sized telescopes really that difficult? What about a formation of satellites. Impossible is a pretty strong word to use for something t
by EthanHeilman 13y ago
Is building a Kilometer sized telescopes really that difficult? What about a formation of satellites.
Impossible is a pretty strong word to use for something that is possible but economically infeasible given current technology. I'd be curious to NDT reasoning on the subject.
- akiselev 13y agoThere have been a bunch of proposals for telescope satellite arrays and there are a few in progress like ARReST at Caltech & Surrey (which uses cube sats)
- sliverstorm 13y agoThe Hubble orbits at about 600km. Getting something many km in size to orbit the earth properly might be difficult.