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We shall review some science objectives for small radio telescopes arrays that can be deployed from robotic landers, outposts and Moonbases. This covers Earth, solar, Jupiter-Io, solar system targets, flare stars , radio sources and galactic observations. We describe results from field campaigns ROBEX & ARCHES performed by DLR, ESA and partners at Etna (as a lunar site analogue ) with teleoperated and semi autonomous rovers, that deployed a range of experiments. This included the robotic deployment of an interferometric array of 4 radio antennas at 20 MHz. We shall describe operations, results and prospects for small precursor radio astronomy experiments on the Moon.
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15th Europlanet Science Congress 2021, held virtually, 13-24 September 2021. Online at https://www.epsc2021.eu/, id. EPSC2021-848