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aurizontoday at 1:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

I wonder if the many Starlink satellites can be used for this? True, the signals are low and are steered, but the nature of steering creates many side lobes that will be useable in this manner. It would be a complex computational task with satellites in motion as well as ground stations transmitting on offset frequencies. I suspect various research/military labs are playing with this?


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blittletoday at 1:51 PM

I did some searching and seems like an active area of research: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8768105/ and https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9905046/

eskaytwotoday at 2:00 PM

With their movement you might get some strange SAR like effects. Computationally complex but could add another dimension over a static tower.

Aspostoday at 1:26 PM

Such radar would be a game changer.

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