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Re:No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth by lstodd on Monday July 06, 2026 @02:53PM (#48808906)
Nope. Ot was one of a kind thing only because you could not launch two at the time. With that a-given, ofc the ground-based "other end of the leg" was essential for it to work.

Now we can launch two. Or two dozen. This completely obviates any need for ground listeners as for resulting angular resolution.

Since ground-based radioastronomy has other uses, will stay there anyway and since crosscheck is always better, future long-base radiointerferometry will use legacy ground-based observatories.

Re:No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth by privong on Monday July 06, 2026 @03:08PM (#48809102)
We're saying the same thing -- one radioastron satellite isn't enough, you'd need a constellation of them.