Chinese researchers look at how to keep satellites under the radar

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A research team in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, has developed stealth technology for use by small satellites to blind radar detection.

Spotting and tracing a small satellite is difficult, even with a large telescope, but some ground-based radar stations can identify an object as small as a pen in the near-Earth orbit, day or night.