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[NIAC 2023] Self-Building Radio Telescope On The Far Side of The Moon

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The Santana Telescope

This is going to take, you know, five or six years to build. But it's done so robotically. And one of the reasons we opted to go with this type of arrangement is that it's actually an interferometer. We'll be able to look at radio transients that will pop up. We could look at Aurora on Jupiter and understand the sensitivity 100,000 dipoles gives you a lot of sensitivity.We expect to be sensitive enough to detect a cell phone operating on Pluto.

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