Lunar Crater Radio Telescope

The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) is a proposal by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts to create an ultra-long-wavelength (hereby wavelengths greater than 10 m - i.e., frequencies below 30 MHz) radio telescope inside a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. If completed, the telescope would be the largest filled-aperture radio telescope in the solar system at 1 km in diameter.[1]

Concept of operations for building LCRT.
Lunar Crater Radio Telescope
Alternative namesLCRT
Location(s)far side of the Moon
Telescope styleradio telescope 
Diameter1 km (3,280 ft 10 in)

References

  1. "Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on the Far-Side of the Moon". NASA. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
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