Caltech Clears the Way to Build the Most Sensitive Radio Telescope Ever (opens in new tab)

Caltech cleared the final design review for the DSA-2000, a field of roughly 1,650 radio dishes in the Nevada desert funded by Schmidt Sciences. Built to be the most sensitive radio telescope ever and to image the sky in real time, it aims to catch fast radio bursts and pulsars by the thousands, with construction targeted to 2029.