Comment by WD-42
2 days ago
Lots of weird marketing speak on here for an astronomical observatory. “Modular design that leverages economies of scale” what? These are telescopes, not telephones. There’s a very small amount of scientific grade ones in existence and they are all different.
Best of luck to them anyway.
Edit: it looks like the Argus array at least is a project out of Chapel Hill. Better info here: https://argus.unc.edu/specifications
Schmidt probably helping fund it.
> what? These are telescopes, not telephones. There’s a very small amount of scientific grade ones in existence and they are all different.
Have you not been following modern satellite and telescope bus architectures? Both planet and spacex have been using this model to great effect over the last decade.
Neither of those companies are producing astronomical telescopes as far as I can tell.