Word: radar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right moment for just the right length of time, he gave his craft a "kick in the apogee" and moved it into an even more precise orbit. Curving between 107 and 217 miles above the earth, Gemini was now ready for its next test: release of the 76-Ib. Radar Evaluation Pod (REP). Fitted with bright, flashing lights and radar transponders, the REP would be an orbiting target for a carefully planned attempt to check the techniques of docking vehicles in space...
Still Safe. Gemini soared into its second orbit. Over Africa, Cooper ejected the Radar Evaluation Pod precisely on schedule. Though the spring release tossed it out a little harder than anticipated, the mission still seemed safe...
...back at NASA's Houston control room, Flight Director Chris Kraft's ground crew was growing more and more worried about the unheated fuel for the fuel cells. The pressure kept falling; it was already dangerously low at 180 p.s.i. Because the radar, radio and computer would use up too much power, Chris Kraft decided against any further maneuvers with the pod. He went into a huddle with his fuel-cell engineers Assured that the pressure was far too low for normal operation, Kraft immediately planned for the crew's safety...
...experiments that the occupants of a MOL will perform during its prolonged flight that are remarkable. As an Air Force project, MOL has definite military goals. It could be used for spy-in-the-sky surveillance, nuclear-test detection, target reconnaissance and weather reporting. But equipped with cameras, radar and infra-red sensors, a manned space station could have endless peaceful uses. It could map ocean currents, help locate underground water, experiment with modifying the weather, and take improved pictures of the stars and planets. At San Francisco, for example, International Business Machines engineers suggested that an orbiting laboratory...
Known as microwave radiometry, the system would be less vulnerable to the enemy than radar, and much less expensive than inertial navigational systems. It has thus far been shrouded in military secrecy, but it is no secret that it holds obvious advantages for planes on low-flying bombing missions...