Also an electronically steered planar array is of a fixed disposition (size and orientation), which means it could also be covered in a bay with non/low reflective doors (optical and electromagnetic) as in most modern stealth craft applications. Walter Ridgewell, I.S.P. , ITCP/IP3P > Very curious. The obvious speculation would be that the mesh parabolic > dish antenna of the first Lacrosses was replaced by a rectangular > planar antenna on Lacrosse 5. A planar and specularly reflective > antenna might explain the disappearance trick -- modeling sun angles on > the satellite for this pass might be informative. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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