A team of Chinese military scientists say they have achieved a breakthrough in laser imaging technology that will allow ground stations to identify and track a target in space with unprecedented accuracy.The results suggest that the radar, developed by Professor Han Fei at the National University of Defence Technology in Anhui province, can take images of a thumb sized object in near-Earth orbit with a resolution of up to 3 millimetres (0.1 inches).This accuracy is two orders of magnitude…
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