NASA's moon radiotelescope can work as a testbed for a manned moon station.

Above: Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on the Far-Side of the Moon.

NASA's next big space radio telescope can be on the moon. The telescope would be LCRT (Lunar Crater Radio  Telescope). The size of this telescope would be an impressive 1km. The LCRT would be similar zenith telescope of retired Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope)in China. But LCRT would be far bigger than those Earth-based telescopes are. 

The LCRT would be on the other side of the moon. The system can send data to Earth through lunar-orbiting satellites or the bright-side-based communication station. That is connected with wires to LCRT. The moon-crater telescope on the Moon can also act as an impressive intelligence system. that can see communication on the Earth if that telescope watches Earth. 

Above: FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) (Astronomy Now)

However, there have been non-official visions about the optical telescope on the moon. That theoretical optical telescope would be larger and more powerful than the JWST telescope. NASA would send the telescope in pieces to the moon at the top of the landers. And then those landers will connected. And then that moon telescope can start its operations. 

It's possible. The moon telescope cooperates with human-looking robots that offer it service and repairments. Those systems can make it possible to test the automatized repairing and building tools. And maybe the manned moon station is made by using robots. Then those astronauts can just land and step into the base. That is ready for operations right away. 

The thing is that the moon laboratories are coming with or without Artemis. Those laboratories can be manned or unmanned. The AI-based systems with hostile environment. 

The high-power radiation destroys organisms that survived from the vacuum. Makes those laboratories safe. The automatized laboratories can put on the automatized landing modules and fly their products to the Earth when their mission is completed. 

"Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander. Later this month, a Nova-C lunar lander will deliver several NASA science and technology payloads, including the Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL), to the surface of the moon. Credit: Intuitive Machines" (ScitechDaily,  Laser Precision Meets Lunar Exploration With NASA’s Navigation Doppler Lidar)

There are two problems with new Lunar missions. 

1) Safe landing and navigation. 

Things like navigation lidar altimeters that scan the lunar surface and help to position the craft and tell the altitude for the computers and controllers are the thing that makes missions safer. But the main problem with the moon is that it doesn't have a magnetosphere. That means there is no plasma where radio waves can jump. 

And that makes it impossible to communicate over barriers. The astronauts must always have visual contact with each other if they want to communicate on the moon. The other version is that astronauts use communication satellites that act as relay stations. But if astronauts want to communicate when something like a big rock is between them they need a relay vehicle. 

The moon car that carries the relay station is in a certain position between those astronauts. If that vehicle has visual contact with those astronauts it can act as a relay station. The long telescope antennas with large transmitting sectors make it possible for the astronauts. 

They can communicate over barriers and longer distances. The weak gravity on the moon, with a lack of atmosphere, makes it possible that those telescope antennas can be long. 

Laser LED light on the top of the antenna makes it possible for the system can aim the communication antennas at it. That system might have two modes of targeted communication. And the non-targeted systems. 

Also, the system can use optical (laser) communication with radio communication. That makes those systems less vulnerable to solar storms where electromagnetic radiation can disturb radio communication.

In some visions on the astronaut's helmets is the laser LED that tells the control satellites or telescopes on Earth where those astronauts are operating. That system can send the images of the area to the astronaut's screens where they are. 

Those astronauts require a gyroscopic or inertial navigation system that doesn't require magnetic fields. The gyrocompass helps that crew to keep the line to the base. The small gyrocompass can be in the astronaut's suit, and it can give the targeting point to the space suit's HUD displays. 

For all-time communication with Earth, the system requires four communication stations. Those communication stations must always have visible contact with Earth. So in some models, there are four bases on the Moon. Those stations are connected. That allows those bases to have non-stop communication contact with Earth. 

"A concept image of NASA’s Fission Surface Power Project. Credit: NASA" (ScitechDaily, NASA’s Nuclear Horizons: Pioneering Fission Energy for the Moon, Mars, and Beyond)

Power production.

There are two ways to make the energy production for the lunar structures. The easiest way is to use solar power. The engineers can put solar panels in structures that look like blinds. 

Those blinds are easy to transport and easy to open. But the problem is that the moon's other side is dark for two weeks. The solution to the problem can be four solar power platforms at four points on the moon. That guarantees energy support for the base all the time. 

The problem is the long cables. And there is the minimum possibility that those cables face some kind of damage. Micrometeorites or sabotage can damage those cables. 

So another way to make the power supply for the moonbase and telescopes is the miniature nuclear reactor. That kind of reactor can be part of a hybrid power supply system that is a combination of solar panels and a nuclear power plant. In the daytime, the system can use solar energy. At night time the system transforms to use nuclear power. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope