Radar
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The SRI Dish turns 65
SRI’s iconic antenna celebrates 65 years of looking to space.
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SRI radar innovation supports NASA mission to study the northern lights
By providing data from the SRI-operated Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar, SRI scientists are helping NASA better understand the electrical currents in ionospheric plasma.
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SRI’s “the Dish” and its long history
The famous radio antenna has a rich legacy of communicating with spacecraft above Earth and around other planets, as well as listening to distant stars and Cold War-era atmospheric nuclear blasts.
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With innovative tracking technology, SRI is addressing the hazard of space debris particles
Hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of space debris presently go untracked in Earth’s orbit, putting human use of space at risk.
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Leslie Lamarche: Using data to analyze the geospace environment
A research engineer at SRI’s Center for Geospace Studies says it’s essential to engage with researchers from other disciplines.
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Modeling ionospheric scintillation to improve future satellite communication
How SRI is helping to understand the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
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SRI creates sophisticated, low-cost, fault tolerant, phased array radars providing unprecedented Geospace monitoring
A cost-effective, scalable, and modular alternative to both traditional dish and, ultra-expensive, array-radar systems.