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Шаблон:Infobox radar ALTAIR (ARPA Long-Range Tracking And Instrumentation Radar) is a radar tracking station on Roi-Namur island in the north part of the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. It is a high-sensitivity, wide-bandwidth, coherent, instrumentation and tracking radar that is capable of collecting precise measurements on small targets at long-ranges. ALTAIR supports several operating modes, including tracking and signature collection at VHF and UHF. It is part of a network of contributing radar sensors that perform deep-space tracking.[1]

The antenna uses a steerable 150-ft dish (46-m-diameter) and employs a focal point VHF feed and multimode Cassegrain UHF feed in conjunction with a frequency selective sub-reflector (5.5 m diameter).[2]

The radar became operational in 1969.[3] The original task was to detect and track intercontinental ballistic missiles. It is currently used to measure satellite orbits and meteor echoes in low-Earth orbit,[4] and to observe ionospheric irregularities and background densities.[5]

References

  1. Card Index of Radar Sets in Radartutorial
  2. S. Close, S. M. Hunt, F. M. McKeen and M. J. Minardi: “Characterization of Leonid meteor head echo data collected using the VHF-UHF Advanced Research Projects Agency Long-Range Tracking and Instrumentation Radar (ALTAIR)”, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA, in RADIO SCIENCE, VOL. 37, NO. 1, 1009, 10.1029/2000RS002602, 2002 (online PDF)
  3. Sidney G. Reed, Richard H. Van Atta und Seymour J. Deitchman DARPA technical accomplishments : an historical review of selected DARPA projects, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Va. und [1990-1991]
  4. Sigrid Close et al.: “Simultaneous dual-frequency observations of meteor head echoes using ALTAIR”, In: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Space Debris, 19–21 March 2001, Darmstadt, Germany. Ed.: Huguette Sawaya-Lacoste. ESA SP-473, Vol. 1, Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-733-X, 2001, p. 237 - 242 (online PDF)
  5. D.M.Towle: “ ”, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts 02173, in Radio Science 1980, p. 71 ([1])

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