Gaofen 4: World's most powerful GeoSpy Satellite continues China's leap in Space.

[gambit]

http://www.popsci.com.au/space/gaof...s-chinas-great-leap-forward-into-space,413454
Popular Science: Gaofen 4, The World's Most Powerful GEO Spy Satellite
"The GEO orbit of Gaofen 4 means that it can maintain continuous coverage of Chinese territory and surrounding areas. It's also the most powerful GEO satellite, good enough to track aircraft carriers in near real time from space."

It is very funny to those who think they know of better wording than the editor at Popular Science, whose magazine has been translated into over 30 languages and is distributed to at least 45 countries.

The issue is not if it is possible to build a satellite that is capable of tracking targets.

The issue is that there is a world of TECHNICAL difference between monitoring and tracking. PopSci has to write for a large audience that is %90 composed of lay people. For those of us that belongs in the %10, we recognize and tolerate loose language in the interest of educating the general public.

 

[cirr]

Gaofen-3 is scheduled for Aug. 2016.

The country has budgeted 55(or 60 the exact figure has slipped my memory) billion yuan for the Gaofen family of satellites.

 

[Beidou2020]

http://www.popsci.com.au/space/gaof...s-chinas-great-leap-forward-into-space,413454
Popular Science: Gaofen 4, The World's Most Powerful GEO Spy Satellite
"The GEO orbit of Gaofen 4 means that it can maintain continuous coverage of Chinese territory and surrounding areas. It's also the most powerful GEO satellite, good enough to track aircraft carriers in near real time from space."

It is very funny to those who think they know of better wording than the editor at Popular Science, whose magazine has been translated into over 30 languages and is distributed to at least 45 countries.

Gaofen is the most advanced GEO spy satellite in the world and as it says in the article can track aircraft carriers.

US carriers have no where to hide.

 

[gambit]

Gaofen is the most advanced GEO spy satellite in the world and as it says in the article can track aircraft carriers.

How ? What make the aircraft carrier different ?

US carriers have no where to hide.

We have been playing hide and seek far longer than your PLAN have at playing on the Liaoning.

 

[Tiqiu]

The issue is that there is a world of TECHNICAL difference between monitoring and tracking. PopSci has to write for a large audience that is %90 composed of lay people. For those of us that belongs in the %10, we recognize and tolerate loose language in the interest of educating the general public.

OK,let's forget about the words of track , monitor, and etc. We mean China is capable of following and knowing where the AC is with GF-4, in the case of DF21D is needed. LOL

NO regret even to trade with a "warning"

same goes for me

 

[Beidou2020]

How ? What make the aircraft carrier different ?


We have been playing hide and seek far longer than your PLAN have at playing on the Liaoning.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ercise-leaving-military-chiefs-red-faced.html

Yup, might want to have another go at that 'hide' side of things

 

[Tiqiu]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ercise-leaving-military-chiefs-red-faced.html

Yup, might want to have another go at that 'hide' side of things

LOL, this event was widely referred as "宋(039Song)阻(stop)鹰(CV-63) in China.

 

[rcrmj]

Oh, no, no, no....Whatever make YOU happy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satellites_in_geosynchronous_orbit

If you say this list never happens will make you feel happy, then this list never happened

or these news never happens.

http://breakingdefense.com/2014/02/new-spy-satellites-revealed-by-air-force-will-watch-other-sats/
http://www.americaspace.com/?p=21205
http://www.intelligent-aerospace.co...ctronics-and-software-payload-into-orbit.html

Well, whatever floats your boat, man

http://www.popsci.com.au/space/gaof...s-chinas-great-leap-forward-into-space,413454
right back at ya```` 'world's most powerful' `` good luck with the catch-up kid

 

[gambit]

OK,let's forget about the words of track , monitor, and etc. We mean China is capable of following and knowing where the AC is with GF-4, in the case of DF21D is needed. LOL

Please....

The PopSci crew was just being sensationalists and entertaining when they added something that they knew would be for shock value -- an aircraft carrier.

When you track something, you assign what we call a 'critical characteristic' to that something, which then change that something to target. That 'critical characteristic' can be a brief case that a man is carrying. Or to a police officer, a man wearing a hoodie jacket would be interesting. Or if you are a member of traffic, a truck's size would be a 'critical characteristic'. This is where the PopSci crew does not say about what make the aircraft carrier different from other vessels. Sure you can say what those unique things are, but does GF-4 satellite know ? So just because the satellite's sensor is outstanding, that does not mean it can recognize those 'critical characteristics'.

 

[jhungary]

http://www.popsci.com.au/space/gaof...s-chinas-great-leap-forward-into-space,413454
right back at ya```` 'world's most powerful' `` good luck with the catch-up kid

lol..............so one blogger called Jeffery Lin said it's the "World Most Powerful" then it is.

What does "World Most Powerful" satellite even means to begin with??

Again, whatever floats your boat man.

 

[dy1022]

 

[Oldman1]

 

[gambit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ercise-leaving-military-chiefs-red-faced.html

Yup, might want to have another go at that 'hide' side of things

Here you go...

https://defence.pk/threads/chinese-submarines-are-they-noisy.369289/#post-4742286

Let me know if it is too technically complex for you. I will try to dumb it down further.

 

[Beidou2020]

Here you go...

https://defence.pk/threads/chinese-submarines-are-they-noisy.369289/#post-4742286

Let me know if it is too technically complex for you. I will try to dumb it down further.

Apparently Chinese submarines are quiet enough to utterly humiliate the US Navy

 

[gambit]

Apparently Chinese submarines are quiet enough to utterly humiliate the US Navy

I guess that I posted was too technically complex for you ? Sorry, but I cannot draw pictures.