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  • To be launched within five years?! The Chinese will long before that have produced something similar and returned the data already.

    The UK has to become a lot more active in getting this project to the launchpad.

  • s/dark side/far side/
  • RFSoCs seem like extreme overkill for this frequency range, though since Xiphos makes a space-grade one, it's not so unreasonable I guess.

    Alas, I'm working on a competing project that I won't go into detail about :).

  • Plot twist, they just bolted one of these onto the back of the cubesat:

    https://www.goldrecordart.com/product/sku/PFplat1

  • Would a satellite positioned at Earth Moon L2 be stable enough? It would also need a relay to communicate with earth…

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