From the Daily Camera:ÌýThe Â鶹ÊÓƵ is teaming up with Lunar Resources Inc., of Houston, to place a radio observatory on the far side of the moon by 2030.
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts recently awarded the team a $125,000 grant to fund a nine-month research period. NIAC is a program that selects highly innovative projects with the potential to create breakthroughs in science. NIAC selected less than 5% of proposals to be funded, including the CU Boulder and Lunar Resources project, FarView.
Jack Burns is an astrophysics professor and the vice president emeritus for Academic Affairs and Research at CU Boulder. He is also the director and principal investigator of the NASA-funded Network for Exploration and Space Science. Burns is the concept creator of FarView.