I think you're probably right overall that many of the tasks of human crews will be replaced by computers in space combat. "Drone" vessels would be able to react faster to some situations and pull high-G maneuvers that crewed vessels could not.
But unless there is true AI with human or...
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Definitely 1m is not plausible given all of these potential options.
Agreed - I would expect radar and lidar is being used in conjunction with scopes.
I know that radar creates a cross-section which could be extrapolated to be an object of a certain size and...
Thank you mfb, that definitely gives me a lot to think on.
In terms of lens diameter mounted on a spacecraft , I guess I am not sure what would be practical and realistic for a future setting. I would assume a 1 m lens with all the equipment/mirrors and some kind of directional maneuvering...
Summary:: 1. At what distance (in km) would a telescope (roughly half the size of Hubble) be able to actually make out features on an approaching object with a 75m cross-section?
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New to the forum, but I've been reading a lot of other posts here and am consistently impressed...