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[NIAC 2023] Revolutionary 100-Kilometer Space Telescope

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The Future of Interferometry

I think this idea, you mentioned this earlier in the conversation about building these networks piecemeal bit by bit by bit, adding more as you go. I think that's a really powerful sort of methodology that could be used across all observatories. You can go, we saw what happened when you spend $10 billion and you take 20 years to build one exquisite telescope. And yes, you can launch smaller spacecraft, you just have to work a little bit harder to make them function together as an interferometer.

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