The moon is very far away. It's easy to forget that since it seems so close. But I imagine if we have to take all the materials out there it will use too much energy won't it?
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@futurebird JWST is even farther from Earth than Moon is, what would be the benefit of Moon-based telescope over JWST?
@futurebird It might have advantages. I'm not an expert here because my academic background is in English. However, it seems like being on the far side of the moon would put some lucky […]
@futurebird it takes a reasonably knowable amount of change in total orbital velocity (the search term would be delta-v) to go from earth to moon,
and you can work backwards from typical […]
@futurebird If Elmos Rocket is maybe real working some day this would be easy for it. The backside of the moon is specially good for radio astronomy because it is within nearly complete radio […]
@futurebird that depends upon the scope of the project. Dropping a lander sized object which then opens up and is a telescope could be interesting.
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