Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-3155949-20130924042049/@comment-5135903-20131014145000

That depends on the range you want to use the radar at. For an object just 1 billion kilometres away (not far in interstellar terms), it would take nearly two hours for the radar signal to be sent out then bounce back. Not to mention you'd need a very powerful radar with very sensitive receivers.

Hopefully the range we need to scan is smaller than that. Or perhaps it would be more efficient to systematically follow each of the offshoot paths? Can anybody actually pilot this thing?!