Space-Based Radar - Definition and Overview

Space-Based Radar (SBR) is a proposed constellation of active radar satellites for the United States Department of Defense. The SBR system would allow detection and tracking of aircraft, ocean-going vessels (similar to the Soviet RORSAT program), and potentially land vehicles from space. This information would then be relayed to regional and national command centers, as well as E-10 MC2A airborne command posts.

External links

• Air Force fact sheet (http://www.losangeles.af.mil/smc/pa/fact_sheets/sbr.htm)
• Globalsecurity.org page (http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sbr.htm)
• Northrop Grumman info sheet (http://www.es.northropgrumman.com/space/rf/asbr.html)
• "The Space Based Radar Plan" (http://www.afa.org/magazine/aug2002/0802radar.asp), John A. Tirpak, Air Force Magazine, August, 2002

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