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Originally Posted by Pectus Solentis
In fact, the sum of the prices of PESA, LADAR, and RADAR described in Ultra-Tech (well, is there more sensors in Spaceships' setup?) is much expensive ($460K) than even SM+6 Spacecrafts' Enhanced Sensor Array (which costs $200K) but is much lighter (250 lbs) than SM+4 Spacecrafts' (which weighs 0.5ton).
I thought that the sensors intended for ground uses is difficult to build than that intended for space uses because ground has more obstacles for sensors to be operated than space, so that cost differences between these maybe make sense...
But will it justify that the weight of ground sensors which are much lighter than space sensors?
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Well, right off the bat let's not overlook the basic fact that the Enhanced Sensor Array's weight is set: it's one ship system. The question isn't why it weighs that much, but why it performs as it does for that weight.