• tal@lemmy.today
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    13 hours ago

    You mean stick the Hubble on the dark side of the moon?

    Space telescopes in general. Somewhere that isn’t LEO; I grabbed that as an example because I recall it being needed for…IIRC it was radiotelescopes, to avoid communications chatter. Might not be ideal for optical telescopes.

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      7 hours ago

      The two biggest problems with observatories on the far side of the moon are being limited to only half of space (the same as planetary observatories) and the cost to build it. You can mitigate the first by having observatories on opposite edges of the far side, but that also costs twice as much as building one.

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          3 hours ago

          And yet, I can use satellites to communicate on the other side of the world. I have a suspicion the same system would work for this.