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Old 26th Oct 2018, 18:41
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Bing
 
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ORAC,

Granted, but how are you getting bearing discrimination? You'd need multiple receivers with a reasonable distance between them to get a decent number of cross fixes, i.e. a multi-static system the same as sites like flightradar use to track Mode C aircraft, except the receivers are also moving. So the problem then is you'd need to know the exact position of the cubestat and time of receiving a particular pulse from the transmitter. GPS might work for that if you've got access to receivers that work at orbital speeds* but I suspect if you've already got plans for a standard spy satellite it's just as easy to launch more of those?
Of course you can always just turn the radar off.

*COTS ones don't as I understand it.
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