Is Starlink A Secret Radar Constellation?

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited as a rigorous radio-engineering analysis of what radar capability Starlink could plausibly have.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Noise In Space

Topic

starlink radar capability

Format

explainer

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2026–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• and soon from space? radio engineering breakdown of starlink radar capabilities, it’s a pretty impressive bird if you were designing it only for that: [VIDEO]

• Yeah, I agree. A massive radar network, passive or active is the most likely possibility I have come across. You'd need a LOT of compute at each node to get the most out of the network. I found this video[1] to be a pretty convincing …

• Check out this video that goes into a very deep technical explanation about how the satellites can be used as a Synthetic Aperature Radar to build a realtime representation of the entire globe at meters of resolution: [VIDEO]