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https://www.space.com/inflatable-moon-telescope-universe-dark-ages

> European scientists are developing an inflatable radio telescope concept that could do groundbreaking science on the moon.
>The idea, based on a recent feasibility study by engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA), proposes an array of radio antennas printed on the superlight space-blanket material kapton that would travel to the moon folded inside the planned European Large Logistics Lander, also known as Argonaut.
> "You fold up the system, then you push gas into it and you inflate it. It's like an inflatable mattress on the moon," Marc Klein Wolt, a radio astronomer at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, who leads the ESA Astrophysical Lunar Observatory science team, said at the Astronomy from the Moon conference in London earlier this year.