Difference between satelite and advance satelite?

[_Patrick Swayze]

Could someone please share with me what the scan range differences between the two are?

[Malkuth]

Normal 30 advanced 70.

[_Patrick Swayze]

thank you!

[DrSuperGood]

Encyclopaedia mentions it?

Satellite: 30km scanner, 100 Mj hull
Advanced Satellite: 75km scanner , 150 Mj hull

[_Patrick Swayze]

Originally posted by DrSuperGood:

Encyclopaedia mentions it?

Satellite: 30km scanner, 100 Mj hull
Advanced Satellite: 75km scanner , 150 Mj hull

I had looked before but didnt find it. Im now at a shipyard buying my first ship and when I right click the advanced satelte there, it leads me to the encyclopedia, showing it's indeed 75km. Thanks.

Considering a satelite costs 5k and the advanced 105k, isnt the best option to drop a small one at stations you want to use for trading, the financially most viable option or am I missing something?

[SpecFour]

you are correct. advanced sats are more specialised./ maybe you can get 4 or 5 stations in one satellite for a greater cost, but i think they are more useful as actual surveylance devices. drop them in hostile area, or areas where you want to quickly/easily gain an intel presence in a large area.

less sats per area also means less defensive infrastructure required.

[Doc Clarke]

Assuming almost all platforms and other items are on the same plane (which they almost all are) then looking at Pi x Radius(squared) the advanced satellite covers 5625Km and the normal 900 km.
A 6.25X difference in coverage. If we are talking about a sphere rather than the area of a circle - then there is not much difference in cost per cubic Km covered between the two. But as almost all items in X4 are on the plane of the elliptic - that rarely matter.

Dropping normal satellites near stations away from the superhighway. Essp when there are 2 or 3 together was my tactic. Those stations are served a lot less and are generally "hungrier" for resources than those sat right on the highway. One cheap satellite often covering 3, sometimes even 4 station.