Unlike telescopes such as the Hubble and the James Webb, which are made from mirrors and lenses, FarView would comprise a hundred thousand metal antennas made on-site by autonomous robots. It would cover a Baltimore-size swath of the moon. To show the FarView site up close, Carol drew a big square filled with dots. Each dot represented a cluster of four hundred antennas; all the clusters together would be sensitive enough to detect a cell phone on Pluto.
To develop a plan for FarView, Lunar Resources, which is privately owned, has formed a consortium with several scientists and universities. 'Usually, these missions are pursued by large academic and research institutions, but we’re a small startup aiming to break new ground in lunar exploration,' Carol emphasized.
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