I know you can measure “Dopplar” but, assumed they had already done so.
It shouldn’t have taken this long.
That it did seems suspect to me.
What is even more suspect is some former military guy, running his mouth on FoxNews all weekend, claiming “his sources” “confirms” plane landed in Paw Kee Stain.
Boo Chitter.
No better than the hapless and flacid speaking expert they had on this morning.
Inmarsats are comms satellites with focused spot beams. Wouldn;t that have to have been communicating with the plane to detect Doppler shift? If they had an orbital autotrack function that uses Doppler shift for orbital correction, the signal would be focused on a beacon with a known lat, long, and altitude. I thought satellites used star patterns in concert with ground beacons for navigation control.
No way an Inmarsat bird could “track” an object without common communications between the two objects IMO! Am I missing something here?