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They talk about creating an artificial star by stimulating light at 90km in the atmosphere, would it be useful to have a satellite that you can reposition that
by ambicapter 1y ago
They talk about creating an artificial star by stimulating light at 90km in the atmosphere, would it be useful to have a satellite that you can reposition that would shine a calibrated light source back at earth? I imagine you could also do some tricks with the light source to maybe get more accurate data about the atmospheric distortions.
- pyinstallwoes 1y agoLike the moon ?
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoThe satellite beam wouldn’t go through the parts of the atmosphere the telescope is pointing. You need to calibrate exactly for the spot the telescope is observing.
- ambicapter 1y agoThis would be a satellite with repositioning capability (I'm aware this would probably use up consumable fuel).
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoAnother problem is that the satellite moves across the sky.