To achieve this, Gemini needed something no other spacecraft before had been equipped with: a space radar. NASA had planned extensively for the Gemini rendezvous maneuvers, building a special ...

First Sighting. The most important component of the space watch went into operation about six months ago with the construction of “Dark Fence,” a kind of radar trip wire stretching across the ...

LeoLabs, a California-based company, built a radar in eastern Arizona that monitors objects in space, specifically in the earth’s orbit. “What these radars do is they track objects in space ...