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An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon

by hillcrestenigma on 4/6/2026, 3:22:42 AM

https://moonrf.com/

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by: infinitewars

Wild hardware flex for a garage project. Reverse-engineering the Pi 5&#x27;s MIPI to push 5.6 Gbps from custom MASH sigma-delta ADCs to a Lattice ECP5 FPGA to the Raspberry Pi is serious engineering. The idea that the RF receiver looks like a &quot;camera&quot; to the Pi while the transmitter is a &quot;display&quot; is super creative. Getting a 1.5 kW, 240-antenna EME array for $2,499 is actually cheap for something like this.<p>Their standalone 4-antenna tiles (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moonrf.com&#x2F;updates&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moonrf.com&#x2F;updates&#x2F;</a>) show off some killer apps, like 30 fps spatial RF visualization and NEON-optimized drone video interception.<p>I&#x27;m rolling my eyes at the &quot;Agentic Transceiver&quot; part, though. It is highly doubtful that an onboard AI casually writes, debugs, and compiles a real-time C app with analog video color sync recovery and decode in ten minutes.

4/6/2026, 4:33:39 AM


by: diimdeep

Cool, how full array compares to the single antenna placed on Starlink satellite ?

4/6/2026, 4:38:50 AM