NASA wants to build a radio telescope on the moon

NASA experts have proposed building a huge radio telescope on the lunar surface inside the crater. Using robotic lunar rovers, it is planned to stretch the wire mesh in the crater, the diameter of which can reach 5 km, and hang the receiver in the center. The whole process is planned to be automated, therefore, the participation of people will be practically excluded.

Such a telescope can be used to detect radio waves that cannot be caught from the Earth due to the large amount of radio noise and the ionosphere.

In general, the idea of a lunar radio telescope should not be underestimated. If investors are interested in the project and can translate it into reality, such an apparatus can cover the wavelength range of 6-30 MHz, namely this range was not used for observations and data collection, which is likely to lead to new discoveries in the study of the early Universe.