Anže Slosar

And if it's far away, it can be...

simultaneously in the view of of your instrument the far side and and and the earth but mostly it basically on when it's on the far side it talks to to the to our lucinite and when it goes around uh it talks to the ground and this kind of allows us to kind of uh transfer our data back right

But this, for example, puts like an interesting level of complexity because the total amount of volume you can transfer, it's quite low.

We hope to transfer about six gigabytes of data for every lunar cycle, 28 days.

And so one could almost email this data.

This is a very interesting project.

It started about six or seven years ago, and it went from the top level of echelons of demonstrations, trying to get DOE and NASA to work together,

for various reasons that are kind of lost in the midst of time.

But it was like at some point, essentially, I received a call asking me, do you want to take part in a project to put Realtors on the moon?

And I said, why not?

This sounds like a very exciting opportunity.

Yeah, well, there was no project time.

People just said, do you think interesting science could be had by putting a great telescope on the lunar far side?

And at the time, we were kind of thinking about putting a large telescope on the ground for kind of related science.

But this sounded like there was funding, and basically there was a spot, and it's time to go.

So I said yes, and I never thought I would be doing a space mission in my life, but this is how science goes.

I mean, partly, yes, because normally this project starts with the community processes, you know, these big surveys where kind of community comes together and decides what are the next big steps.

So if you want to kind of start a new project, you have to start kind of going around your colleagues, lobbying, trying to convince them why they should be doing something.

And this takes time and effort.

Well, this was kind of came out of nowhere.