Re #6, sounds like LOFAR: this is rather inside baseball stuff, but what once used to be LOFAR split up into three telescopes when the partners went their own ways. The Dutch went ahead and built LOFAR, and there's a group building a long wavelength array at the VLA site in New Mexico. But Jackie is standing in front of the MWA prototype antennas. The MWA (Murchison Wide-field Array) is being built now in Western Australia - it's a collaboration between MIT, Harvard, India and Australia. It seems pretty clear that the dipoles in the MWA pics are the same ones that they're proposing to put "On The Moon! And Beyond!" - but they are first going to operate on the ground.