Is Carnival out there somewhere??
I would appreciate some input on a technical issue with the sats and "triangulation". It has been assumed by us all (I think) that to get triangulation you need 3 sats flying in a triangular pattern. What I want to know is if 3 sats are seperated by a long distance from each other, but still technically in a triangle, as they pass a specific point in turn, do they not create a sort of time delayed triangle? Of course the earth is rotating and this point will have moved slightly by the time sat 2 then sat 3 fly over it. But that should be quite easily accounted for in the data processing.
If that point moves though - e.g. a ship - would this technique not give you better information than a tight triangle like HE360? When they fly over they detect a spot of interest, but can not determine if it is moving and in which direction until they fly past again. By elongating the "triangle" and allowing some time to pass, surely this could enable to detect movement and direction of the "spot"?
As mentioned before by Kleos, they aim to fly the 4 sats in a diamond pattern - presumably because this gives them 4 triangles simultaneously. If you look at KSF1 (& I know they aren't all transmitting) on
https://spaceaware.io/ , you can see they are flying in diamond pattern. B & C are flying in close orbits to each other but apart in time. A is orbitting to the left and D to the right. They look to be out of sinc if you assume they have be in a close formation. But if you pick a fixed point on the earth, esp. aound the equator, as they pass that point they do form a diamond depending when you do your data read for each sat
Not that this really matters, but it would be nice to know these things.
