Breakthrough Starshot Radio Telescope

[EdEarl]

A larger interferometer gives better resolution tan a smaller one. The technology developed for the Breakthrough Starshot (i.e. light sails pushed by lasers) enables making a vast phased-array interferometer to be launched into space, with probes radiating out away from Earth's orbit. Each vehicle would have a light sail and interferometer antenna, which means its weight might be twice that of Breakthrough Starshot vehicles. Many antennas for the interferometer can be launched toward the Ort Cloud, for example, scheduled once per month for decades, centuries or millennia. This array of antennas will spread across the solar system and eventually grow larger.

This project seems symbiotic with Breakthrough Starshot.

Edited January 28, 2018 by EdEarl
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