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 Jan 4 2008, 01:46 PM
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Hello everybody, I've developed a bit of a fascination with the moon recently, and so I was delighted to read this about a private group in hawai making progress toward putting an unmanned observatory on the moon. I couldn't find any mention of it in either the lunar exploration or private missions section, so I thought I'd start a thread to see what peoples thoughts are on the idea. Is it a good one, and if so why has it not been done before? What exactly will it be used for?
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Jan 4 2008, 04:28 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8791 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Could be; the group's stated goal is to work towards a permanent human lunar presence, so this project might be their planned 'seed'. Be interesting to see if they can pay for it, much less actually do it...
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Jan 4 2008, 04:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 402 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
It'll be very interesting, and to be honest I'd like to see it happen. But although for some applications a site on the moon makes sense (like nprev said about the infrared, or farside radio, astronomy), it doesn't sound like they've got a solid application + reason for siteing on the moon. Thats a pity because if they did they might have more luck attracting funds
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marsbug lunar observatory Jan 4 2008, 01:46 PM
djellison "We see this as a critical phase of work for ... Jan 4 2008, 02:23 PM PhilCo126 The best place to put a space telescope is in one ... Jan 4 2008, 02:49 PM djellison Fewer micrometeorites, but only by half compared t... Jan 4 2008, 03:03 PM
ngunn QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 4 2008, 03:03 PM) ... Jan 4 2008, 04:01 PM nprev From http://www.spaceagepub.com/ilo/ilo.overview.h... Jan 4 2008, 04:21 PM marsbug Longevity perhaps? With no orbit boosting needed i... Jan 4 2008, 04:23 PM nprev Thanks for the credit, Marsbug, but it was actuall... Jan 4 2008, 05:26 PM NGC3314 QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 4 2008, 11:26 AM) Than... Jan 4 2008, 05:52 PM hendric Well, for big pie-in-the-sky kind of thinking, you... Jan 4 2008, 09:49 PM marsbug Sorry Doug and Nigel, thanks for pointing out my t... Jan 5 2008, 06:30 PM simonbp I think probably the key advantage of an observato... Jan 5 2008, 06:45 PM nprev Got it...interesting! Still, for this particul... Jan 5 2008, 07:22 PM simonbp Oh, forget a 2m dish, just find a suitable crater ... Jan 7 2008, 12:31 AM edstrick The sorts of things that make reasonible lunar ast... Jan 8 2008, 09:07 AM marsbug A little news on the farside radio-astronomy idea. Mar 20 2008, 05:49 PM |
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