Lunar Infrastructure for Exploration
| Organization | EADS Astrium Space Transportation |
|---|---|
| Location | The far side of the Moon |
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The Lunar Infrastructure for Exploration (LIFE) was a proposed project to build a
LOFAR. The project was presented for the first time publicly at the 2005 IAF Congress in Fukuoka. [citation needed
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The 1.3 billion euro project would have involved a radio telescope to be located on the polar region of the far side of the Moon.
The radio telescope was intended to look for
exoplanets and detect signals in the 1-10 MHz range. Such signals cannot be detected on Earth because of ionosphere
interference.
The proposed telescope would have been constructed by a lander vehicle to deploy
permanent sunlight and direct communication with Earth. The proposed lander would also have had geophones, which could listen to meteorite
impacts on the Moon's surface.
Another German aerospace consortium,
ILA
in 2006.
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