alt Hacker NewsYou only need to find the aircraft carrier once (say, when it docks) and then the satellite can remain pointed at it forever.
You only need to find the aircraft carrier once (say, when it docks) and then the satellite can remain pointed at it forever.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but satellites... orbit. They don't just fly in arbitrary directions following a target.
Even something like a rain storm can lose visual track of a carrier group, or even just night time, at which point you've now got an increasingly large area to search again to find the carrier which can be anywhere inside a several hundred mile circle.