Test Showed Radar Could Enable Nighttime Shuttle Launches
Tests conducted with borrowed radars during last month's launch of the Messenger Venus probe have raised hopes NASA will be able to launch its space shuttles after dark within safety constraints imposed after the Columbia accident. A 30-ft.-dia. C-band radar dish and a smaller X-band Doppler radar...
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