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Imaging Satellites in Space
From the Ground

Ground-based telescopic views of Lacrosse 1:

Range-doppler radar image of the Soviet space station Salyut 7 with attached Cosmos 1686 module about 16 hrs before reentry on February 7, 1991:

Animated GIF movie of Space Shuttle produced by the German FGAN range-doppler imaging radar at Wachtberg-Werthhoven near Bonn. (May need QuickTime to view.)

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MOV range-doppler radar movie of Russian space station Mir. (May need QuickTime to view.)

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USA 103 - Optical Tracking Of HEO Centaur

STS-3

Sputnik 2

Pegasus

Hubble Space Telescope

Soviet electronic ocean reconnaissance satellite (EORSAT)

second-generation Soviet ELINT satellite

Resources

• Development of the Haystack Ultrawideband Satellite Imaging Radar by Mark G. Czerwinski and Joseph M. Usoff, Lincoln Laboratory Journal, Volume 21, Number 1, 2014
• Russian adaptive optics imaging of satellites
• Ground-based imaging radar? by Allen Thomson, March 19, 2003
• Tracking and Imaging Radar (TIRA) and further development of the TIRA system
• Measurements of Small-Size Debris with Backscatter of Radio Waves by J. Markkanen et al, European Space Agency contract report, March 2002
• Detecting, Tracking and Imaging Space Debris by D. Mehrholz, et al, ESA Bulletin 109, February 2002
• International Space Station in Motion, Astronomy.com, 30 April 2002
• Seeing is Believing! (imaging the International Space Station), by John Locker, on Station, December 2001
• Wideband Networked Sensors MIT Lincoln Laboratory, October 2000 (>1 MB PDF)

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