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"Internet of things" devices mostly use cellular, WiFi or Bluetooth, and those frequencies are already in heavy use so I doubt it will make much difference for
by TorKlingberg 12y ago
"Internet of things" devices mostly use cellular, WiFi or Bluetooth, and those frequencies are already in heavy use so I doubt it will make much difference for astronomers.
About the far side of the moon, there is little reason to put a telescope there. It is much easier to put one in orbit around the earch, sun or an earth-sun Lagrange point.
As for manned space exploration versus robotic, I think that is a debate for an other day.
- drzaiusapelord 12y agoThose other locations still be susceptible to stray radio transmissions, especially an Earth orbit which would also have issues with Earth's ionosphere. All that moon rock is going to be a great radio insulator. I also imagine there are cost savings by having it sit on the surface of a moon than being its own satellite. No need for worry about orbit corrections or strict weight limitations. The Tsiolkovskiy crater is pretty flat and would make a good candidate for a telescope which would have long antenna arrays laying on the surface.
- snowwrestler 12y agoI doubt there are cost savings in siting it on the lunar surface. Yes you save on station-keeping, but it's very costly and dangerous to descend into a gravity well like that. Weight is definitely still important to make sure it doesn't hit too hard. L2 point would give you almost all the benefits with a lot less risk and cost.