The ground-to-space bistatic radar experiment highly resolves the k-spectrum, which means that the sensed volume of plasma is homogeneous and that the received signal contains a pure content of wave vectors, which are important for accurate analysis of wave growth and damping.
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By weighting and integrating individual returns ( such as through likelihood ratio based detectors ), detection can be optimised to place more emphasis on stronger returns obtained from certain monostatic or bistatic radar cross section values, or from favourable propagation paths, when making a decision as to whether a target is present.
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Throughout its history, the MCL suffered from a problem that was never solved; because of the way a bistatic radar works, any object near the transmitter or receiver makes a large signal, in contrast to conventional monostatic ( single site ) radars where this effect is limited to the area around the site.
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Multiple transmitter radars such as those from bistatic radars and low-frequency radars are said to have the capabilities to detect stealth aircraft . Advanced forms of thermographic cameras such as those that incorporate S-400, which is claimed to be able to detect a target with a 0.05 meter squared RCS from 90 km away.
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The RAX-1 mission made great strides in CubeSat design, and was able to execute bistatic radar measurements never before been performed with such a spacecraft . RAX team members applied the lessons learned from RAX-1 to the design of a second flight unit, RAX-2, which will perform the same mission concept of the first RAX that launched in November 2010, with improved bus performance and additional operational modes.
