200kg telescope on an airship?
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by Ptd
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4391
What could a professional astronomer do with 200kg at 65,000ft?
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by ivywong scientist, admin
Interesting. I prefer the ones we strap to Ariane rockets 😉
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by JeanTate in response to Ptd's comment.
Cool! 😄
If cost were no object, we'd have a VLA or LOFAR on the dark side of the Moon! 😛
The airship idea may be of more interest to citizen scientists and educators; with a much more modest budget, what ideas might they come up with?
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by ivywong scientist, admin
I think the statement "If cost were no object..." should be replaced by "IFF cost were no object ..." (If and only if 😉 ....)
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