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0 pointsgreedo11y ago0 comments

Being able to ping the moon with a laser doesn't help with terrestrial systems. Just as radar has a horizon limit, so do laser systems. So if you put this on a controller version of an AWACS, you have to deal with attenuation from clouds/weather, and I think keeping a lock on a maneuvering UCAS might be a challenge.

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Tuna-Fish11y ago

I'm not talking about pinging the moon, I'm talking about maintaining a link with a maneuvering spacecraft in moon orbit.

greedoOP11y ago

So this spacecraft you're linking to makes radical 8g maneuvers, changes direction at a 30s/ roll rate, and can change altitude at will?

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Tuna-Fish11y ago

I'm not talking about pinging the moon, I'm talking about maintaining a link with a maneuvering spacecraft in moon orbit.

greedoOP11y ago

So this spacecraft you're linking to makes radical 8g maneuvers, changes direction at a 30s/ roll rate, and can change altitude at will?

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