The first phase of a study for a proposed €1.3 billion ($1.54 billion) radio telescope to be located on the polar region of the far side of the Moon will be launched in June by EADS Space Transportation and the Netherlands Foundation for Astronomy.
The study would lead to an industry proposal to the European Space Agency’s January 2008 ministerial council. And it could approve lunar missions.
EADS Space Transportation lunar mission programme manager Hartmut Muller said,
‘Launched between 2013 and 2015, the radio telescope could look for exo-planets and detect signals in the 1-10Mhz range, which were generated as far back as 300,000 years after the big ban.’
Via: Flight Global
