Anže Slosar

Maybe moon has like weak ionosphere that is going to make our duration difficult.

You know, Lucy Knight will kind of try to understand and thus pave the way for bigger instruments in the future.

With lucid night, I don't think we'll be able to see a dark age signal unless something really surprising happens.

Having said that, because this is such an unexplored part of the radio frequency spectrum, maybe there will be other surprises.

There are people who think maybe cosmic microwave background is very bright at these very low frequencies.

Maybe there is new dark matter physics or some new other fundamental physics that will produce kind of interesting new spectral lines.

or features in the maps or in frequency space.

You know, there are very, very, very few parts of modern science where kind of things are unknown at this level of precision, okay?

So that's what makes it really exciting.

So we get to the far side of the moon on board of a lander, which is paid by Eclipse.

Eclipse is the NASA commercial lunar payload services.

Basically, it's a way for NASA to develop an ecosystem of private sector providers that can take you to the moon and land you there.

And basically, we have DHL to the moon.

And we are one of the early landers from this program.

We will be on the Blue Ghost 2.

You might remember Blue Ghost 1 successfully landed on the lunar near side last year.

It was the first successful landing by a private sector company on the moon.

And that's why it makes us very, very hopeful because we'll be essentially using the same lander, but on the lunar far side.

Landing is essentially autonomous.

So in principle, it's not that difficult, whether you're on this side or the other side.