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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

British space company to design fleet of satellites that may help map early universe

An aeroplane is seen flying with the moon in the sky
The far side of the moon is shielded from noise created by human-made radio interference. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

A British space company is designing a fleet of satellites that could orbit the moon and map the early universe.

The Italian Space Agency has commissioned Blue Skies Space to design the satellites that could detect faint radio signals from the dawn of the universe. These signals are almost impossible to detect from Earth’s surface due to human-made radio interference, but the far side of the moon is shielded from this noise.

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