{"id":3212,"date":"2013-07-06T17:47:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2013-07-06T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:47:55","slug":"nasas-kaboom-radar-could-greatly-improve-detection-and-characterization-of-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3212","title":{"rendered":"NASA’s KaBOOM radar could greatly improve detection and characterization of asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Ka-BOOM” NASA project is developing a way to use an array of small high-frequency Ka-band radar dishes to map “nearby asteroids, orbital space debris, water on the Moon and even rover-trapping sand pits on Mars” : NASA Developing Prototype Asteroid-mapping Radar at KSC – SpaceNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The project was unveiled during a recent visit by NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot to KSC: NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot Visits Space Coast and Meets With Media June 3-4 – NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He briefed reporters<\/p>\n

on the agency’s new asteroid initiative and NASA’s new Ka-Band Objects Observation and Monitoring (KaBOOM) system, a three-antenna test bed radar array at Kennedy.<\/p>\n

NASA recently announced plans to find, study, capture and relocate an asteroid for exploration by astronauts. The asteroid initiative is a strategy to leverage human and robotic activities for a first human mission while accelerating efforts to improve detection and characterization of asteroids.<\/p>\n

The goal of KaBOOM is to prove technologies that will allow future systems to characterize near-Earth objects in terms of size, shape, rotation\/tumble rate and to determine the trajectory of those objects. Radar studies can determine the trajectory 100,000 times more precisely than can optical methods.<\/p>\n

Current NASA radar systems are limited in both resolution and the distance at which they are effective. KaBOOM is the penultimate, low-cost step before proceeding with a high-power, high-resolution radar system. NASA expects this proof of concept to be completed in about two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is a local Florida TV news report about the project: NASA to launch KaBOOM system: new way to track asteroids – ClickOrlando.com – June.5.13<\/a><\/p>\n

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The “Ka-BOOM” NASA project is developing a way to use an array of small high-frequency Ka-band radar dishes to map “nearby asteroids, orbital space debris, water on the Moon and even rover-trapping sand pits on Mars” : NASA Developing Prototype Asteroid-mapping Radar at KSC – SpaceNews.com. 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