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Just seen some pictures of Hubble, and The "Very Large Telescope"
(original name) in Chile. It made me think. With a reasonable space based industry, moon mining, metal working, aluminium and glass production, precision engineering, how big an optical telescope could be built in zero-g? What are the limits? Could a 100m diameter optical telescope be built? what would it see? As for radio telescopes, what are the limits are baseline inferometry? what would a few telescopes, each say 3km across, in solar orbit, say 1 billion km apart be able to achieve? |
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