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Re:America Needs a New Moon Mission by gravypod on Monday December 26, 2016 @11:03PM (#13261206)
The amount of money that could be saved by performing lithography in the vacume provided by space would be enormious. Too bad the cost of geting up there is also... well... enormious.
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Re:America Needs a New Moon Mission by madengr on Monday December 26, 2016 @11:40PM (#13261301)
I'd think space would be, relatively, filthy for lithography. Maybe depends where.
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Re:America Needs a New Moon Mission by eliasbagley on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:05AM (#13262098)
More filthy than earth, though?
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Re:America Needs a New Moon Mission by madengr on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:29PM (#13265516)
Maybe, compared to a semiconductor fab vacuum chamber, especially as extreme UV is ramping up. Charged particles to deal with in space too.
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