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by estearum 83 days ago
As described above the issue would be continuous observation, not how to follow it assuming you never lose sight of it.
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You certainly can't do continuous observation but even just with commercial satellite offerings you can get pretty close.

For example nowadays Planet Labs [1] offers 30-50cm resolution imaging at a rate of one image or 120sec video stream every 90 minutes over a given 500 km^2 region. There is no situation where an aircraft carrier is going to be capable of evading a commercial satellite offering with that frequency and resolution. Once you know approximately where it is or even where it was in the semi-recent past, it's fairly trivial to narrow in and build a track off the location and course.

1. https://www.planet.com/products/satellite-monitoring/

Commercial operations like Planet Labs currently cover most of the Earth multiple times a day.
This should not be assumed to be available in case of a war.

See say https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/leading-satellite-firm-hol...

> Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of high resolution images taken from space, said Friday it would hold back for 96 hours images of Gulf states targeted by Iranian drone attacks.