Astronomy from the Moon and Earth Advancing with Near and Far Term Proposals / Missions
Numerous astronomy payloads are manifested on upcoming Moon landings including L-CAM (AstronetX) on ispace Mission 3 NET 2025 and LuSEE-Night (DOE) NET 2026 on Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2 while more ambitious proposals compiled by Business Insider include the triangular Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (Vanderbilt University) for gravitational wave detection; Pantheon Habitat Made from Regolith, With A Focusing Solar Reflector (University of Arizona), a US$10B, 18 optical / IR telescope array with integrated living and farming space; 100,000-antenna FarView (Lunar Resources); Next generation terrestrial observatory to be supported by $1.6B NSF funding: either 25.4-m Giant Magellan Telescope on Cerro Las Campanas, Chile or Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea, Hawai’i