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NASA wants to finance construction of the largest radio telescope in the solar system on the far side of the Moon

The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) team was approved by NASA to proceed to its second research phase, where it will dedicate itself to refining the radio telescope concept, as well as planning the best approach for carrying out the mission.

The LCRT, which is based on a research project led by Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, a specialist at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which has a budget of five million dollars to finance seven innovative ideas.

With a kilometer in diameter, the LCRT promises to be the largest radio telescope in the solar system, being twice as large as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), known to be one of the largest radio telescopes in the world.

The LCRT team has already chosen some lunar craters that are spacious enough to accommodate such a large project, with dimensions between 3 to 5 kilometers. In charge. The construction of the radio telescope itself will be in charge of robots, although experts are still checking what will be the best way to accomplish it.

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