A very cool idea, however the headline is misleading - NASA has not even remotely committed to running this mission. They’ve selected the swarm project as one of 13 projects in their innovation program and given it up to $175k to study feasibility. That’s roughly a postdoc for two years. This is far, far from committing the hundreds of millions or billions needed for the execution of this mission.
Are the tracking systems for those massive telescopes sophisticated enough to track objects by designation, or do they still require coordinates? Like I know they have tracking for earths rotation but I can’t even imagine needing to look up the info to set sights on some body for the allotted view time, however many days that would be done for (I assume it’s a set of long precise numbers, far too long to easily memorize)
Do we know if the Moon will be in the correct phase in it’s orbit when 2024 YR4 comes by? I didn’t notice a term to account for that, but I’m not too familiar with Desmos.
I’d love to have been in the room when Galileo sent back its first images of Io back in the day. The collective “wtf am I looking at?” reaction would be priceless.
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