Perlan 2 will still travel light, with an empty weight of only 1100 pounds, but is equipped with high altitude radar; instrumentation and lighting for night flying; a few scientific instruments and cameras to record data and basic ground-communications equipment.
After his PhD in high-frequency microwave physics at the University of St Andrews, Unsworth headed south to work for the Ministry of Defence, developing radar instrumentation.
The Hisdesat payload is a satellite with radar instrumentation on board, with a planned service mission of providing monitoring activities for both government and commercial clients over an intended linespace of five and a half years.
Tsunoda and White (1981) reported the observations of wave-like structures in the bottomside ionosphere using electron density observations made by the steerable ARPA Long-Range Tracking and Instrumentation Radar (ALTAIR) incoherent scatter radar.
During 1949 50, some of the Lincolns were specially modified with advanced radar and other instrumentation to participate in Operation Cumulative, a joint program with the Royal Air Force gathering long-range navigation and bombing data for use in potential air campaigns against the Soviet Union.
In this paper, we present the chosen instrumentation for radar science, baseline mission requirements and the initial design for integration into the lander platform, including all peculiarities and constraints.
Instrumentation on the OIB lines included a laser altimeter [ Krabill et al., 2002], a variety of ice-penetrating radars [ Leuschen, 2011], and a Sander AIRGrav gravimeter [ Argyle et al., 2000; Sander et al., 2004; Cochran and Bell, 2010].
Table 3 lists the observation sites and instrumentation (13 ionosondes, 1 meteor radar, 2 MF radars, and 1 optical Fabry-Pérot interferometer) participating in LONET.
Section 2 describes the instrumentation used to get the radar measurements and the composition of the database of radar images obtained from these measurements.
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Inertial navigation and guidance were under development in the Instrumentation laboratory and experiments in space communications, radio and radar astronomy were underway at Lincoln Laboratory and the Research Laboratory of Electronics.
