Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act...
by alex_hitchins on Monday September 17, 2018 @08:41AM
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I wonder what the 'refresh-rate' is of a scan, as in how many times a second/minute/hour is the image refreshed. I doubt such a wide area could be real-time. Guessing it's enough that it's possible to track and locate rogue ships.
Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act...
by detritus on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:03AM
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Illegal fishing is a big contender and is one avenue I think is sorely needed in this world of horrific natural/resource depletion and by-catch waste, despite what certain punters with an axe to grind (eg @mmjaa, below) may believe.
Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act...
by dubbel on Monday September 17, 2018 @12:27PM
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I would imagine the illegal shipping activity they are mainly targeting is the bypassing of sanctions. For example oil being transferred between tankers on the high seas and then shipped into North Korea.
Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act...
by danielvf on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @08:59AM
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That’s not really the same thing at all - listening for a deliberate transmission from a ship announcing its location is easy, required only an antenna, and can be done from a cubesat.
Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act...
by pjc50 on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:43AM
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Maritime law enforcement is a rather traditional role of the Royal Navy and hardly Orwellian. The radar-based satellite is arguably less worrying than the traditional US military spy satellites.
Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act...
by mmjaa on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:58AM
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I don't remember voting for the UK to police my countries sovereign waters.
Fact is, the UK has no real place in the world if it isn't policing things such as the worlds oceans, or its finances. This is a role it has granted itself, un-democratically - one may even say, Imperiously...
- some more detailed specs: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missio...
- launch report & video: https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/09/16/pslv-c42-mission-statu...
These videos are pretty old, IIRC.
https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/104137237292473958...
What is this really for?
Illegal fishing is not - $10 - $23B annually in cost (2009)[1], destroys fish stocks, and contributes to slavery and human trafficking.[2]
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2646833/
[2] https://fas.org/irp/nic/fishing.pdf
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-russi...
http://www.astronautix.com/u/us-a.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A
This is an active radar in space.
Please, take a look at this http://globalfishingwatch.org/ to get a grasp about what's at stake.
Fact is, the UK has no real place in the world if it isn't policing things such as the worlds oceans, or its finances. This is a role it has granted itself, un-democratically - one may even say, Imperiously...
We've even built a death star! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12169051/Massive-Dea...
No, really,