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Exo Life Finder
We‘ll detect exolife during your lifetime
ExoLife Finder (ELF) project and the Small ELF telescope on Tenerife
The enormous advantages of a large ground-based telescope for detecting life
You will wake up some morning to the announcement that life (even advanced life) has been detected around another star. It’s likely this will happen from a large ground-based telescope before space telescopes will have this capability. The ELF consortium is a network of engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs that is dedicated to making this happen.
A scalable distributed aperture concept
Combines interferometry and fixed aperture optics
Small ELF prototype completed in 2024
What we can see with ELF
3,4,5,6
The Small ELF in the Canary Islands is a pathfinder
tbd
The key new technologies that enable ELF
8,9,12,18,19,
The ELF consortium partnership
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