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DARPA Unintentionally Invents New Rocket ‘Radar’ Thanks to SpaceX
A routine test turned into a surprise discovery when DARPA’s atmospheric sensors picked up something unexpected—courtesy of a ...
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DARPA Tried Using the Earth's Atmosphere as a Giant Sensor and Detected Something Interesting
While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, DARPA made a highly unusual ...
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How Elon Musk’s SpaceX accidentally helped DARPA build a ‘rocket radar’
The team detected unusual disturbances linked to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket plummeting through the atmosphere during reentry.
DARPA just unintentionally created a ‘rocket radar’
While testing a new system, DARPA unintentionally created a "rocket radar" that can detect objects reentering Earth's atmosphere.
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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere
Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth's ...
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DARPA is Using Earth’s Atmosphere as a Sensor to Detect Secret Explosions and Spacecraft Reentries
DARPA is using Earth’s atmosphere as a powerful sensor, allowing the detection of events like rocket reentries and illicit ...
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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere
Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth's atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance. But researchers with ...