“Twin” robots on the dark side of the moon to build a great edifice

A team of scientists has created a new innovation that will remove another obstacle standing in the way of building a radio telescope much larger than the largest telescopes on the planet Earth, as the new telescope is stationed on the dark side of the moon, specifically in a giant lunar crater.

And the US space agency “NASA” has allocated to the “Lunar Crater Radio Telescope” project, an amount of 500 thousand dollars with the aim of increasing research and development.
According to the “NASA” website, this telescope will be built in a natural giant crater on the dark side of the moon, which will save a lot of costs.

Scientists have devised an “innovative” plan

The team developed an innovative plan to deploy space robots to build a radio telescope half a mile wide (one kilometer wide) in one of the many proposed craters on the far side of the moon, where the telescope consists of a complex wire mesh.

According to the source, the scientists presented a new automated concept that they called “DuAxel”, which is a robotic concept under development that would consist of two linked roving vehicles, ie “twin robots”.

“Twin” vehicles on a construction mission

One of the rovers will operate at the bottom of the crater and position as an anchor, while the second rover will travel across the wall of the hole to the container to build the telescope, in a mission that could be described as “Mission Impossible”, as fiction movies.

A separate spacecraft will connect a wire-mesh dish to the center of the crater so that the robots open up and pull wires from the walls of the hole upward to anchor and secure them to the edge.

The grid must maintain precise spacing and parabolic shape while withstanding temperatures as low as -280 ° F (-173 ° C) and 260 ° F (127 ° C).
The dark side of the moon is an excellent location for a radio telescope. That’s because the moon itself will prevent radio interference from Earth.