--- title: Space Forge Evaluates In-Orbit Manufacturing Tech description: LuSEE-Night, a radio telescope launching in early 2026, will land on the moon's far side to detect faint signals from the cosmic dark ages—a period 200-400... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/space-forge-evaluates-in-orbit-manufacturing-tech-gbzb4k6dy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Space Forge Evaluates In-Orbit Manufacturing Tech | daily.dev og:description: LuSEE-Night, a radio telescope launching in early 2026, will land on the moon's far side to detect faint signals from the cosmic dark ages—a period 200-400... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/space-forge-evaluates-in-orbit-manufacturing-tech-gbzb4k6dy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GbZB4K6Dy.png og:image:alt: Space Forge Evaluates In-Orbit Manufacturing Tech og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Space Forge Evaluates In-Orbit Manufacturing Tech **[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 18 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary LuSEE-Night, a radio telescope launching in early 2026, will land on the moon's far side to detect faint signals from the cosmic dark ages—a period 200-400 million years after the big bang. The instrument uses dipole antennas to scan 0.1-50 MHz frequencies, shielded from Earth's interference and solar wind. After 40 years of advocacy by astrophysicist Jack Burns, the mission aims to observe neutral hydrogen signatures that have been redshifted from 21 cm to tens of meters. The telescope must survive extreme lunar temperature swings (-130°C to 120°C) using battery-powered heating and insulation. Success could pave the way for FarView, a proposed 100,000-antenna array for deep-space radio astronomy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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