Is Starlink A Secret Radar Constellation?
Noise In Space3 HN recommenders · recommended in 1 month, 2026-2026
498K views · 6 months ago · explainer · news
A 105-minute technical deep dive from Noise In Space evaluating whether Starlink satellites could work as synthetic aperture radar. It covers SAR signal-to-noise, amplifiers, antennas, duplexing, phased array beamforming and simulations of V2 Mini and V3 satellites.
Cited as a rigorous radio-engineering analysis of what radar capability Starlink could plausibly have.
33:43TSP #183 - Starlink Dish Phased Array Design, Architecture & RF In-depth Analysis
The Signal Path
171K views • 5 years ago
28:09How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥
Branch Education
9.9M views • 4 years ago
15:41Why SpaceX is Making Starlink
Real Engineering
7.4M views • 7 years ago
7:55Low Latency Routing in Space
HotNets Anonymous
106K views • 8 years ago
6:47Starlink revisions, Nov 2018
Mark Handley
173K views • 7 years ago
10:15Using ground relays with Starlink
Mark Handley
506K views • 6 years ago
25:54SpaceX Seattle 2015
Cliff O
46K views • 11 years ago
43:15DEBUNKING STARLINK
Common Sense Skeptic
717K views • 5 years ago
11:01Pulling Clear Images Directly Off Satellites | GOES-15,16,17 and Himawari 8 HRIT
The Thought Emporium
635K views • 8 years ago
31:12The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope
Real Engineering
8.8M views • 4 years ago
19:59EEVblog 1547 (Part 1) - Contacting the Voyager 2 Space Probe
EEVblog
71K views • 3 years ago
24:30Is It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space?
Scott Manley
1.1M views • 7 months ago
29:28Defeating Microwave Weapons! - Part 1
Tech Ingredients
2.4M views • 4 years ago
13:01Pinging The Voyager 2 Probe (PART 2)
EEVdiscover
75K views • 9 years ago
31:46Starlink: BUSTED!! + ALL other Failed Musk promises!
Thunderf00t
486K views • 5 years ago
28:11Why Everyone Is Talking About Data Centers In Space
Scott Manley
408K views • 10 months ago
3:281.1 - Course outline
LaintalAy
113K views • 9 years ago

Starbase Live: 24/7 Starship & Super Heavy Development From SpaceX's Boca Chica Facility
NASASpaceflight
127.4M views • 5 years ago
1:03:45How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away
Flight Software Workshop
17K views • 1 year ago
30:36Orbital Rings
Isaac Arthur
421K views • 9 years ago
8 comments from Hacker News
The US, UK, AU, and Russia have been back and forth on leadership relative to some metric or another wrt Over the Horizon systems throughout the post war period. > the world's finest radar and navigation tech Hadn't realised the UK had a sat nav constellation up (nav tech) and .. are we counting Starlink as radar tech? * link * ▶ this video
Think of it less as a comms system with a small increase in bandwidth, and more as a radar system with a larger increase in resolution. * ▶ this video
More like a giant military radar larping as an space based ISP. ▶ this video Elon has always been a Department of Defense/intelligence asset larping as a capitalists. You can't exactly go to congress and get a quarter of the government budget to do globe spanning surveillance from space, or convince them to let you fund, build and maintain a platform for psyopping your own civilian population (x) So you go get your illegal projects funded through capital markets with through an asset like Elon. As soon as the department of defense started focusing on subterranean warfare and how its the future of wars Elon starts a tunneling company. Elon is just Howard Hughes v2, they're running the same script again.
On the military side, "Starlink V3 with data center" looks a hell of a lot like an orbital Synthetic Aperture Radar asset, which requires both a big antenna and a good deal of onboard computation to mitigate bandwidth requirements. See ▶ this video and specifically for the economics of AI vs surveillance - link
The data centres are for the secret radar constellation masquerading as an ISP company that is Starlink You are watching the slave grid being erected over your head ▶ this video See 1:38:00
Check out this video that goes into a very deep technical explanation about how the satellites can be used as a Synthetic Aperature Radar to build a realtime representation of the entire globe at meters of resolution: ▶ this video
Yeah, I agree. A massive radar network, passive or active is the most likely possibility I have come across. You'd need a LOT of compute at each node to get the most out of the network. I found this video[1] to be a pretty convincing analysis of the absolute max capability you could expect, and it would indeed be impressive. [1] ▶ this video
and soon from space? radio engineering breakdown of starlink radar capabilities, it’s a pretty impressive bird if you were designing it only for that: ▶ this video