Depending on the number of mirrors needed to do damage, you might not need to track it at all. It’s not doing acrobatics, it’s just moving in a “straight” line. You would know where it is going to be before it gets there. So, you could have your mirrors prefocused along the path it is going to take.
For some reason it’s really funny to me. It would be in the beam for a vanishingly small time: 762 microseconds, which if every mirror in the 392-megawatt array were properly focused, is still enough to receive a burst of 300,000 joules of radiant energy. I have not enough physics to tell you if that’s a big deal or not, but I feel like it would be and I don’t think the cameras would work after.
Depending on the number of mirrors needed to do damage, you might not need to track it at all. It’s not doing acrobatics, it’s just moving in a “straight” line. You would know where it is going to be before it gets there. So, you could have your mirrors prefocused along the path it is going to take.
Fine fine fine fine fine fine OH GOD WHY
For some reason it’s really funny to me. It would be in the beam for a vanishingly small time: 762 microseconds, which if every mirror in the 392-megawatt array were properly focused, is still enough to receive a burst of 300,000 joules of radiant energy. I have not enough physics to tell you if that’s a big deal or not, but I feel like it would be and I don’t think the cameras would work after.