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cm2187yesterday at 12:23 PM3 repliesview on HN

But that means you need to have a different laser pointed at every single individual aircraft right? Doesn’t really scale.


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ameliusyesterday at 12:32 PM

I suppose you can do time-sharing. And use mems-mirrors to quickly move the beam between different targets.

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eqvinoxyesterday at 2:52 PM

You can probably do phased arrays. (It might already be a phased array.)

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voidUpdateyesterday at 1:29 PM

If starlink satellites get laser downlink, it might work :P

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