On 25 Jun 2015 at 5:38, William Ewing (via tml list) wrote:

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> More likely approximate. Radar and other tech is only going to get so
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Keep in mind that you can get a lot of precision by having multiple
sensors spread out. As long as you know their relative positions
(laser links can give that to *high* precision, for example) you can
combine them to get relally accurate data.

And don't forget that given Traveller tech, amatuer astronomers will
be orbiting homemade telescopes that make hibble look like a pair of
binoculars.

Now, for STC (and other) purposes, you don't necessarily want a
Hubble type sensor. But the same size "mirror" with different options
can be very useful for tracking.

Optical (especially IR) sensor are likely to be more important than
radar, anyway..

Radar can (probably) do better at ranging, but multiple optoical
sensor can get pretty good bearing info. And get decent range info by
triangulation.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com