On Mar 11, 4:40*pm, canopus56 wrote:


For the future in optical astronomy, *NASA has planned an orbiting
optical synthetic telescope - the Terresterial Planet Finder -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Planet_Finder

Peace - Canopus56

As I read it this is not a synthetic aperture telescope. At optical
wavelengths this is way beyond our technology.