Timeline for Is it easier to detect a satellite than an aircraft with a land-based radar?
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| Dec 1, 2023 at 8:29 | answer | added | Ludo | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 1, 2023 at 5:05 | vote | accept | S. Kohn | ||
| Dec 1, 2023 at 3:22 | answer | added | Woody | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 30, 2023 at 20:58 | comment | added | Uwe | Radar detection of a satellite needs a large antenna dish and a lot of power due to the radar equation. Doubling the distance needs 16 times transmitter power, 10 times the distance and 10000 times the power. So detecting an airplane in 40 km distance is much easier than a satellite in 400 km. | |
| Nov 30, 2023 at 1:18 | answer | added | Steve Pemberton | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 30, 2023 at 0:49 | history | asked | S. Kohn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |