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Binocular Space Telescope in the Works

Posted by michael on from the biclops dept.

museumpeace writes "ABCNews.com's technology pages have a story about NASA's plans to orbit a binocular telescope. Similar in concept to the Arizona telescope reported in /., this new variable baseline interferometer would be able to operate in the UV which is unavailable to terrestrial intstruments. The telescope would have the resolving power of a 120 foot diameter conventional telescope."

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  1. Foot? by turboalberta · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why are there still foot circuling in the scientific community. Has the crash of the Mars Climate Orbiter learned us nothing?

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