[Interview+] A Far Side of The Moon Radio Telescope May Happen Sooner Than You Think
BONUS PART STARTS AT 31:55
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🟣 Guest: Dr. Dave Deboer
📜 The Lunar Farside Transients and Technology Telescope (LFT3) Mission https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.25762
A radio telescope on the far side of the Moon should become a reality very soon. How will it operate? What science will it do? Who and how will deliver it? Finding out in this interview.
00:00 Intro
01:59 Why the far side of the Moon?
08:01 Possible science
20:47 The potential survey
23:20 Getting to the Moon
31:55 Epoch of reionization
43:27 Current obsessions
46:03 Final thoughts
Comments (6)
Once commercialization of the far side of the Moon gets underway, its radio silence will be shattered. If scientists don't fight now to protect it by law, it will be lost for good. Profit drives everything, and humanity has proven time and again that we will wreck nature for the almighty buck.
Appreciate your interviews, including this one of course!
Not sure he covered exactly how the data would be returned to Earth. Fraser mentioned a relay satellite but Dave didn't mention that or I didn't think that he did
Great video! I agree that getting there and claiming the spectrum is far easier than trying any other way.
I hope you can get this in the right ears, but all lunar surface missions should be communicating by laser now. There's no benefit to emitting RFI when optical has so much more bandwidth. Lunar Positioning System could easily communicate by laser.
@8:29 Braking, not breaking