Frequency modulatedcontinuouswave (FMCW) syntheticapertureradar (SAR) isalight-weight, cost-effective, high-resolutionimaging radar, whichis suitable for operation on a smallflight platform.
As long ago as the end of World War II, the Air Force realized it needed to provide neophyte pilots with more than just a moving flight simulator platform and a crisp video display.
President Obama declined to keep the shuttles going, canceled the planned replacement platform for manned space flight and thereby condemned this country for the foreseeable future to reliance on Russian and perhaps, in due course, Chinese rockets to deliver our astronauts to the space station.