How big a dish antenna... Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: How big a dish antenna...
# 8191 byxenophile2002@... on June 14, 2006, 3:58 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
...could I build with 340 tons, in space, given a High Frontier setting?
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/phoenix_diary__two_010312.html , is
the weight of the Arecibo radio telescope, or at least of its "moving
parts," which may or may not include the dish itself.
How big a radio telescope if half of the mass goes for the shield?
Space is the place.