[Laser] Laser retroreflectors on Sats

Tom Becker GTBecker at RighTime.com
Tue Sep 1 07:40:52 EDT 2009


 > ... also the city lights...

Well, I stand corrected.  Walking the dog at dawn this morning with only 
a little more brain function than last night, I realized that we 
couldn't see Sun reflections from Iridium solar panels anyway, assuming 
they are kept perpendicular to the Sun.  The only place such a 
reflection might be visible would be from uplight, along a Sun-satellite 
vector (maybe on Earth very briefly as the bird crosses into and out of 
shadow at local dawn or dusk?).  Antenna panels makes more sense.

Tom



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