Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (25 Jun 2015 02:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (25 Jun 2015 05:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (25 Jun 2015 14:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 04:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 07:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Nokes (26 Jun 2015 18:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 21:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (26 Jun 2015 05:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 09:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (29 Jun 2015 03:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability shadow@xxxxxx (29 Jun 2015 10:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (30 Jun 2015 05:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability shadow@xxxxxx (30 Jun 2015 22:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (01 Jul 2015 02:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Kurt Feltenberger (01 Jul 2015 02:38 UTC)
USSR is gone but has doctrine changed wrt their successor/s? Phil Pugliese (29 Jun 2015 14:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (01 Jul 2015 04:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Andrew Long (26 Jun 2015 15:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Grimmund (26 Jun 2015 18:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 20:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability shadow@xxxxxx (26 Jun 2015 16:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 20:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Ethan McKinney (26 Jun 2015 20:03 UTC)

Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Grimmund 26 Jun 2015 18:11 UTC

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Grimmund <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> The Sol system is about 13 light-hours across.  Put a layer of sensor
> bouys 15 light minutes above  and 15 minutes below the ecliptic.
> Assume each buoy has an observation sphere of 60 light-minutes radi,
> that's 28 sensor buoys to give you eyes above and eyes below, with
> lots of overlap.   Not an insurmountable task or expense.  It's broad
> field IR cameras, computers and comm gear.

Correction.  44 above and 44 below for a total of 88 buoys.

Still, 88 sensors buoys at (excessively expensive) 1MCR a pop (plus
spares) is roughly the cost of three scout ships from Book 2.

You can jigger those numbers up or down depening on system size and
the observation radius of the buoys.

You'll still need a couple of tenders, and maybe an extra crew (or
two)  to rotate to keep the tenders in play while the crews get some
r&r.

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