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Run simulations of the existing

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Millstone Hill ISR

  • Choose the Svalbard Fixed (up B) Millstone Misa ISR in tau7 single pulse 480 microsecond mode.

  • Run for 24 hours during Jan. 1st at a 81 degree elevation using  using 240 seconds of integration at 90 degrees elevation.

  • Determine how many seconds you can reduce the integration period to and still have less than 20% 10% error at all times at altitudes of:

    • 1000 km

    • 500 km

    750 km altitude.

  • Describe what happens when the integration period gets short .

Run simulations of the Svalbard fixed with 2x the diameter

Create a new radar by giving the Svalbard fixed radar twice the diameter. To do this, you will need to know the following parameters about the Svalbard fixed ISR:

  • (1 second).

  • Repeat the second and third steps at an elevation of 4 degrees and a 2000 microsecond pulse and an altitude of 500 km..

Build a low power Millstone Hill background ISR

The idea of this exercise is to build a low power version of the Millstone zenith antenna that can make a measurement every 5 minutes.  To do this, use the Simulate a new ISR tool.  Use the present zenith antenna which has the following characteristics:

  • Freq: 440E6 Hz

  • Diameter: 68 m

  • Pulse length: 480

  • Freq: 500E6 Hz

  • Present diameter: 42 m

  • Typical peak power: 1.0E6 W

  • Tau7 pulse length: 1920.0E-6 secondsTau7 pulse mode

  • 0.05 duty cycle: 0.096

  • 88 Jan 1, 81 degree elevation.

  • Latitude 78 42 degrees, longitude 16 -71 degrees

Determine how many seconds low peak power you can reduce the integration period to and still have less than 20% error at all times at altitudes of:

  • 1000 km

  • 500 km

How much difference does this extra aperture make at 1000 km? At 500 km?

Now change the elevation at 5 degrees (its a virtual radar, after all!). What happens at 1000 km altitude? What parameter could you change to make things better at 1000 km?use to get 10% error at 500 km at 5 minutes integration across the entire day on Jan 1st..