NASA's six-mile-wide orbital telescope is 1/6th built
NASA has plans to build a telescope six miles wide in Earth orbit, comprised of a constellation of six toaster-sized satellites. The first of those toasters has just been finished.
The Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment, or SunRISE, will keep a close eye on our local star to help scientists gain a better understanding of space weather events caused by solar flares and coronal mass ejections . The six"SmallSats" will orbit Earth approximately 22,000 miles away in a circular formation.
"These high-energy solar particles can jeopardize unprotected astronauts and technology. By tracking the radio bursts associated with these events, we can be better prepared and informed," Kasper explained. Because it doesn't have a lens, SunRISE will capture images using interferometry – the same principle as the Event Horizon Telescope NASA scientists used to photograph the
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