The measurements were recorded via a radar altimeter onboard the European Space Agency's (Esa) Envisat satellite.
According to the author, China is expected to launch its first space-based radar in 2003.47 A Liberation Army Daily published an extensive interview with experts on military mapping.
While virtually any radar would have some capability for such space tracking, the inappropriateness of the Krasnoyarsk facility for this purpose was obvious even to individuals untutored in radar technology like Congressmen Tom Downey (D-NY), Bob Carr (D-MI) and James Moody (D-WI).
Another article revealed Chinese interest in airborne and space-based synthetic aperture radar.
Space debris is tracked by the United States Space Surveillance Network that uses radar that can detect an object the size of a pea at 400 miles.
They came away unpersuaded of the space-track rationalization for this radar.
In 1994, researchers from America's airforce tested this idea by using the radio transmitter on a space probe called Clementine as a makeshift radar.
Scientists can already study earthquakes from space, in particular through the use of radar to map the deformation of the ground that results when faults rupture.
The collision occurred because Pentagon radar sites on the ground and U.S. government assets in space weren't closely tracking the merging courses of the two satellites.
Instead, such official spokesmen contended that this radar had been designed and located at Krasnoyarsk for a purpose permitted by that accord tracking objects in space.
It's a new radar setup that turns the helicopter into an all-seeing eye, capable of surveying the 360-degree space around it in order to direct fighter planes in combat.
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