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Exactly correct. And Labeyrie has a design in place for the exact type of fleet I'm talking about.

Do you have a link to the design? I'm assuming it's a radio telescope?

No the design is optical. Here's a white paper on the concept. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

Labeyrie has also proposed a fleet in L2 and on the Moon.

Not the OP, but I guess he is talking about the hypertelescope concept: https://hypertelescope.org/hypertelescope-en/

For additional background, there are already optical interferometry telescopes in use, see VLTI by the European Southern Observatory (Chile, shared facility with the four VLT telescopes and some smaller telescopes).

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