A PROPOSED SPACE MISSION AROUND THE MOON TO MEASURE THE MOON RADIO-QUIET ZONE

摘要

In a series of papers published since 2000 mainly in Acta Astronautica, the senior author (Maccone) dealt with the advantages of the Farside of the Moon for future utilization. Clearly, the Moon Farside is free from RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) produced in larger and larger amounts by the increasing human exploitation of radio technologies. That author suggested that crater Daedalus, located at the center of the Farside, was the best possible location to build up, in the future, one or more radiotelescopes (or phased arrays) to achieve the maximum sensitivity in radioastronomical and SETI searches. Also, a radio-quiet region of space above the Farside of the Moon exists and is called the Quiet Cone. center of the Farside, was the best possible location to build up, in the future, one or more radiotelescopes (or phased arrays) to achieve the maximum sensitivity in radioastronomical and SETI searches. Also, a radio-quiet region of space above the Farside of the Moon exists and is called the Quiet Cone. The Quiet Cone actual size, however, is largely unknown since it depends on the orbits of radio-emitting satellites around the Earth, that are themselves largely unknown (due to the military involve-