Antennas for low-frequency radio telescope of SKA — mentioned by perihelions

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:34:51 GMT

I'm not clear why not. The scale of the completed SKA-low (512*256 = 131,072 antennas, 1.8 meter lengths) is the same as that of Starlink itself. It's even less mass; the antenna parts alone, they are wire dipoles, they say they only weigh 1.6 kg each. https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06708 Why can't humanity launch 2^17 small antennas into deep space, as a free-floating constellation?

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Antennas for low-frequency radio telescope of SKA — mentioned by perihelions