17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
... they are working on plans for a solar gravity lens (SGL) – a cluster of small sats which act like a lens to provide up to a 100-billion... need to be under 10 kilograms to make use of a solar sail to achieve the needed velocity, and they would need to...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... for imaging Earth-like planets outside of the solar system. Turyshev will receive a $2 million grant to further mature the concept and related technologies of his solar gravity lens; a probe located 80.4 billion kilometres (50 billion miles) from...
