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Firefly Aerospace

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First radio telescope heads to Moon's far side

New Capabilities

Building and operating the Blue Ghost 2 lander

No instrument has ever detected light from the cosmic Dark Agesβ€”the 200-million-year period after the Big Bang when the universe contained nothing but hydrogen gas, before the first stars ignited. Earth-based telescopes cannot observe this era: the atmosphere blocks the relevant radio frequencies, and human electronics drown out the faint signals. A radio telescope on the Moon's far side, shielded by 2,000 miles of rock from Earth's interference, could finally peer into this unexplored epoch.

Updated Jan 30