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Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act... by alex_hitchins on Monday September 17, 2018 @08:41AM (#18005345)
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 thebooktocome on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:07AM (#18005541)
https://www.sandia.gov/radar/video/index.html

These videos are pretty old, IIRC.

Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act... by planteen on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:08AM (#18005546)
It looks like a 580 km polar orbit, so any given point on the Earth will only be scanned twice in a day - once at night and once in the day.

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/104137237292473958...