Progress in DND's space-based radar R/D project
Abstract
The Department of National Defense (Canada) has undertaken a program to study technology requirements of space based radar (SBR) because of its potential to provide wide area surveillance of the airspace over North America and its approaches. This project has reached the midpoint of its planned life; a series of technology definition contracts has been completed; and a series of technology development contracts has begun. This paper highlights the technical results of the contracts to date. The topics reviewed include antenna feeds, electric power systems, modelling and testing of large space structures, signal processing and target detection and tracking, monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) devices, communications links, and simulation of alternative SBR configurations.
- Publication:
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Canadian Space Agency, 6th CASI Conference on Astronautics
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990csa..proc.....E
- Keywords:
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- Requirements;
- Space Based Radar;
- Surveillance Radar;
- Technology Assessment;
- Antenna Feeds;
- Dynamic Models;
- Large Scale Integration;
- Large Space Structures;
- Radar Tracking;
- Signal Processing;
- Simulation;
- Spacecraft Models;
- Spacecraft Power Supplies;
- Telecommunication;
- Thermal Analysis;
- Communications and Radar