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UK Plans Space Based Radar System

Posted by samzenpus on from the pings-in-space dept.

First time accepted submitter peepster84 writes "The UK government is to kick-start an innovative project to fly radar satellites around the Earth, with an initial investment of £21m. NovaSar-S would have a number of viewing modes that could enable it to perform a wide range of roles, from flood monitoring and land cover management to disaster mapping and maritime enforcement — notably ship tracking and oil spill detection."

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  1. Re:Heard this before. by AHuxley · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They had Skynet in 1969, but the GCHQ got most of its bandwidth :)
    The classic 1980's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon_(satellite) shows what "initial investment of £21m" can really mean.
    The New Statesman trial showed what happened when the UK lost close to 1 billion pounds into 1980's UK "satellite" tech.
    In the end they used US tech for 500 million pounds.
    So with any UK space effort watch the cash flow :)

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