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Re: Internal orbits
Posted By: Maxaminus	Date: 12/17/99 4:45 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Internal orbits (Mage) > Again, equipment is tight... and you need only half the scope to > do it. > We are not talking planes here. A sattelite spying on the halo > has only to penetrate one atmosphere. A ground based one has to > penetrate twice. Then figure in weather, and surrounding terrain > (limits what the ground scope could see), and ease of capture. > The reason we moved from planes to sats is becaause a sat has a > larger field of view, and is damn near impossible to shoot down. > That and a Sat doesnt have to deal with inflight turbulence > screwing with the cameras. Lasers wont help. THOSE are made of > light too, and suffer from atmospheric blurring as well. Ummm... the reason that lasers help is exactly BEACAUSE they are blurred by the atmosphere. By looking at the way the laser is destorted you can also make inferences to how the view is distorted too. This is because it is very easy to predict the path of a laser beam. Furthermore, it is much more expensive and resource intensive to send up a satellite. (rockets are complicated things, ya know.) And in the halo environment they would mos likely be destroyed the moment they got into the upper atmosphere. Ground based telescopes are cheaper by a thousandfold in both the work that goes into them and the resourses they consume.. Plus, you can hide them. Not to mention that the best view of the inside of the halo can only be attained by sitting on the oppisite side. (farther out your view will be blocked or slanted, further in you get a smaller field of view.) Having several ground based telescopes instead of one satillite could also be more useful for purposes of trangulation. > Faster and easier to make a sattelite, not to mention better and > cheaper too :)

Message Index

Human Space Capability	Napalm Loon	12/17/99 7:33 a.m.
...But where would they orbit?	septimus	12/17/99 11:39 a.m.
Re: ...But where would they orbit?	Grey	12/17/99 12:40 p.m.
I'm dissapointed in you guys...	Maxaminus	12/17/99 2:05 p.m.
Two possible definitions.	Dispatcher	12/17/99 9:33 p.m.
Re: I'm dissapointed in you guys...	SiliconDream =PN=	12/17/99 9:43 p.m.
Re: ...But where would they orbit?	Jägermeister	12/17/99 1:22 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mark Levin	12/17/99 2:15 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mage	12/17/99 2:32 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mark Levin	12/17/99 2:38 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mage	12/17/99 4:13 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Maxaminus	12/17/99 4:45 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mage	12/17/99 11:06 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mark Levin	12/18/99 12:42 a.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mage	12/18/99 11:31 a.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mr. Eez	12/17/99 4:27 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	MacGuyver	12/17/99 4:49 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mark Levin	12/17/99 5:02 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	SiliconDream =PN=	12/17/99 9:42 p.m.
Uses for the Halo's axis...	Noctavis =PN=	12/20/99 3:31 p.m.
Stable Orbits (again)	Butcher	12/21/99 1:36 a.m.
Placing a satellite in the center of the Halo	Noctavis =PN=	12/21/99 10:35 a.m.
Re: Placing a satellite in the center of the Halo	Butcher	12/21/99 2:33 p.m.
Unstable orbits... Why use a halo orbit?	Noctavis =PN=	12/21/99 6:31 p.m.
Tides on the Halo	Butcher	12/21/99 7:03 p.m.
Re: Tides on the Halo	Someguy	12/21/99 8:00 p.m.
Re: Tides on the Halo	Butcher	12/21/99 9:35 p.m.
Re: soell	•Mimer	12/25/99 3:55 p.m.
Re: soell	Matt	12/27/99 11:53 a.m.
Re: soell	Daft Shadow =PN=	12/27/99 4:11 p.m.
Re: soell	Bachus	12/27/99 6:50 p.m.
Re: Unstable orbits... Why use a halo orbit?	SiliconDream =PN=	12/21/99 11:40 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Nathan	12/20/99 4:37 a.m.
Re: Rotations	Forensic	12/20/99 11:58 a.m.
Re: Rotations	SiliconDream =PN=	12/20/99 2:21 p.m.
Re: Rotations	btrinen	12/20/99 2:53 p.m.
Gravity	SyberSmoke	12/20/99 3:09 p.m.
Re: Gravity	SiliconDream =PN=	12/21/99 11:00 p.m.
Re: Rotations	Noctavis =PN=	12/20/99 3:11 p.m.
Re: Rotations	Aiden	12/20/99 8:08 p.m.
Spin that ring	L. Tankersley ("Cap'n Carnage")	12/20/99 5:12 p.m.
Re: Spin that ring	Dispatcher	12/20/99 9:43 p.m.
Re: Spin that ring	L. Tankersley ("Cap'n Carnage")	12/21/99 10:25 a.m.
Re: Spin that ring	Dispatcher	12/21/99 11:10 p.m.
L1? or L4-5?	Oddot	12/22/99 10:24 a.m.
Re: L1? or L4-5?	L. Tankersley ("Cap'n Carnage")	12/22/99 2:54 p.m.
Q: How do you spin the Halo?	Ironfist [CMG]	12/20/99 5:41 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Chris Huff	12/20/99 6:59 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Ringdude	12/20/99 7:18 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	SiliconDream =PN=	12/21/99 11:06 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Someguy	12/21/99 11:11 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	SiliconDream =PN=	12/22/99 4:06 a.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Thomas Magle Brodersen	12/21/99 3:06 a.m.