Radboud Radio Lab and ATG Engineering work together for ESA lunar mission

Radboud University's Radboud Radio Lab and the technology company ATG Europe will work even closer together to build a radio telescope on the dark side of the moon. This cooperative venture is part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) larger programme of multiple missions to the moon. As part of the ESA's major mission programme Terrae Novae , Radboud astronomer Marc Klein Wolt is coordinating a 'topical team'. The team, which features 50 international scientists, is dedicated to building a radio telescope on the dark side of the moon. This telescope will enable astronomers to measure radio waves emitted by the universe just after the Big Bang. They are hoping to learn more about how the universe evolved from that point on. " ATG Europe was part of our team already, but now we will be working together more intensively, and the company will have a larger role," says Marc Klein Wolt.