Meet NISAR: The Satellite That Will Watch Every Inch of Our Changing Planet
NISAR, an upcoming Earth satellite mission by NASA and ISRO, promises to revolutionize how we monitor Earth's surface. Using ...
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How New NASA, India Earth Satellite NISAR Will See Earth
Set to launch within a few months, NISAR will use a technique called synthetic aperture radar to produce incredibly detailed maps of surface change on our planet.
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China’s invention turns small drone into stadium-sized UFO on radar to fool enemies
By powering up the radar reflector as it was carried by a drone ... Van Atta introduced a unique array antenna, designed to ensure that the waveform and path of incident coincided perfectly ...
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'Earth's Imagery Down To The Centimetre': Why NISAR Is Like No Mission Before
The drum-shaped radar antenna reflector, measuring about 39 feet (12 meters) across, is among NASA's contributions to the joint mission. It has been specially designed to help focus the ...
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Compact Test Range
This antenna and Radar Cross Section (RCS) measurement system is based on the Dual Reflector Compact Range principle. To achieve the far-field conditions required for the measurement, the spherical ...
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How the new NASA and India Earth Satellite NISAR will see Earth
At 39 feet (12 meters) wide when deployed, NISAR's radar antenna reflector is as wide as a city bus is long. Yet it would have to be 12 miles (19 kilometers) in diameter for the mission's L-band ...