The Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) satellite is the United States Department of Defense's next-generation operational environmental satellite...
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on 11 April 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2024. "Space Systems Command awards $78 million to Ball Aerospace for second Weather System Follow-on-Microwave Satellite"...
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The microwave landing system (MLS) is an all-weather, precision radio guidance system intended to be installed at large airports to assist aircraft in...
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cancelled the program. It was replaced with the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M). DWSS was a follow-on for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program...
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Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than other radio waves (as originally discovered) but longer than infrared waves...
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States which held the call sign WSFM from 1965 until the 1980s Weather System Follow-on Microwave, an environmental satellite program Web Services Formal Methods...
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Control System is a system at airports having a surveillance infrastructure consisting of a Non-Cooperative Surveillance (e.g. SMR, Microwave Sensors...
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a microwave relay network. It is possible to use microwave signals in over-the-horizon communications using tropospheric scatter, but such systems are...
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"Stepped-Frequency Microwave Radiometer fact Sheet". 403rd Wing AFRC. Retrieved 12 December 2012. Not including series, aircraft in Robertson, Factsheet 53 Weather Reconnaissance...
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Ball lightning (category Anomalous weather)
with the GMR (Graphite Microwave Resonator) by Jean-Louis Naudin". Jlnlabs.online.fr. 22 December 2005. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved...
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Satellite Program (DMSP) constellation of satellites until the Weather System Follow-on satellites are operational. An independent review team (IRT) was...
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Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (category Weather satellites of the United States)
first of the new defense weather satellites, the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) satellite. In 2004 the USAF weather satellite DMSP Block 5D-2...
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Raytheon (category Defunct computer systems companies)
radar systems, and, with support from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Radiation Laboratory (recently formed to investigate microwave radar)...
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Night fighter (redirect from All-weather fighter)
instrument landing system, microwave landing system, Doppler weather radar, LORAN receivers, GEE, TACAN, inertial navigation system, GPS, and GNSS in aircraft...
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Space-based solar power (redirect from Space Solar Power System)
power systems convert sunlight to some other form of energy (such as microwaves) which can be transmitted through the atmosphere to receivers on the Earth's...
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landing systems have been developed, including the radar-based ground-controlled approach (GCA) and the more recent microwave landing system (MLS), but...
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certification for point-to-point microwave ("fixed wireless") for enterprise and government resilience to extreme weather, grid outages and terror attacks...
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measurements made by weather balloons. Thick clouds act like a wall to the infrared energy measured by AIRS. However, microwave instruments on board Aqua can...
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spectrum. Rotational transitions are responsible for absorption in the microwave and far-infrared, vibrational transitions in the mid-infrared and near-infrared...
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(born May 13, 1950) is a Nigerian-American scientist specializing in microwave remote sensing. He worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California...
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Ka-band space-based radar for weather observation and forecasting. Weather radars send directional pulses of microwave radiation, on the order of one microsecond...
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powerful microwave transmitters and Bell's sensitive receivers, they built several experimental systems to test a variety of frequencies and weather effects...
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effects on weather are monitored daily from satellite images. The Antarctic ozone hole is mapped from weather satellite data. Collectively, weather satellites...
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Radar (redirect from Microwave radar)
vehicles, map weather formations, and terrain. A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the radio or microwaves domain, a...
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Pulse-Doppler radar (category Microwave technology)
for multi-mode radar systems. Choppy surfaces, like waves and trees, form a diffraction grating suitable for bending microwave signals. Pulse-Doppler...
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History of radar (section Weather radar)
as a way to produce large quantities of coherent microwaves, the development of signal delay systems that led to phased array radars, and ever-increasing...
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Cavity magnetron (category Microwave technology)
in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators. A cavity magnetron generates microwaves using the interaction...
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outflow. At 12:00 UTC, the MFR categorized the system as a tropical depression. Additionally, microwave imagery indicated an eye in the lower-layer while...
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or microwaves to determine the normalized radar cross section (σ0, "sigma zero" or "sigma naught") of a surface. They are often mounted on weather satellites...
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VERA passive sensor (section System accuracy)
normal mode of operation for the civilian VERA-AP system. System accuracy is typically better than a microwave surveillance radar, and is a function of the...
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