" they figured out how to put these on satellites."
Maybe not. HAARP took megawatts to run, also needed to turn that into RF and pump it out through large arrays not just one antenna. To put that into a satellite you would have to put a multimegawatt nuclear generator on a satellite. That is physically a stiff project. If you left off all the shielding you could lighten it, but still.
Second the antennas would have to be physically quite large. It would be difficult to have such a large array and not be visible. Do we have one, painted black, up there?
A reason for the large antenna array is to be able to beam-steer. You need multiple antennas to do that. This might be overcomeable in a satellite where you can use the satellite orbital travel to act as one dimension in steering, and a linear array of antennas instead of a 2D grid. This is called synthetic aperture and used in the radar domain.
" they figured out how to put these on satellites."
Maybe not. HAARP took megawatts to run, also needed to turn that into RF and pump it out through large arrays not just one antenna. To put that into a satellite you would have to put a multimegawatt nuclear generator on a satellite. That is physically a stiff project. If you left off all the shielding you could lighten it, but still.
Second the antennas would have to be physically quite large. It would be difficult to have such a large array and not be visible. Do we have one, painted black, up there?
A reason for the large antenna array is to be able to beam-steer. You need multiple antennas to do that. This might be overcomeable in a satellite where you can use the satellite orbital travel to act as one dimension in steering, and a linear array of antennas instead of a 2D grid. This is called synthetic aperture.
" they figured out how to put these on satellites."
Maybe not. HAARP took megawatts to run, also needed to turn that into RF and pump it out through large arrays not just one antenna. To put that into a satellite you would have to put a multimegawatt nuclear generator on a satellite. That is physically a stiff project. If you left off all the shielding you could lighten it, but still.
Second the antennas would have to be physically quite large. It would be difficult to have such a large array and not be visible. Do we have one, painted black, up there?