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The unique capability is active radar. As far as I know, combined arrays of smaller dishes can't pulse out a radar beam, they can only sense via interferometry.
by bdamm 4y ago
The unique capability is active radar. As far as I know, combined arrays of smaller dishes can't pulse out a radar beam, they can only sense via interferometry.
Unless there have been some advances in large scale wave forming, a giant dish is the only way to beam out powerful radar.
- aqfamnzc 4y agoCould a large-scale array not transmit in the same way a phased array would on, for example, a Starlink antenna? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array