>>10824551Here is the question since i have to spoon feed it to you:
How would someone "track" a spacecraft on the way to the moon and be able to tell the difference from a transmission that was just coming from earth orbit from one or multiple objects in orbit?
What hardware would be used in this process?
Making contact is not the same thing as knowing where your signal came from with high specificity in angular resolution or distance.
The tracking would in fact require very expensive radar equipment and/or massive dishes, and even then it is hard to resolve distance passively.
