Re: ISS as a passive reflector



"Brian Howie" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Brian Howie" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In message <WSORtXnk9EYHFwFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Hils
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Two German amateurs have used the ISS as a passive reflector. Cool!

http://list-serv.davidv.net/pipermail/moon-net_list-serv.davidv.net/2007-
December/011515.html

Wow !
A few years ago I worked out it should be possible to use the
geo-stationary TV satellites as passive reflectors on 10GHz. They've got
a
fairly big radar cross-section and no need to track them. Has no-one
tried them ?

What radar CS did you assume?

There was a list of x-sections on the web; some of them were about
100m^2 or more. Quite a few carry radar retro-reflectors for tracking.

I enquired what radar CS you'd assumed, that isn't normally measured in m^2,
nor is it directly related to the area you would "see" from the earth.


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