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Nature 446, 22-23 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446022a; Published online 28 February 2007
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Radar satellites: Mountains to molehills
Quirin Schiermeier1
- Quirin Schiermeier is Nature's Germany correspondent.
Abstract
As radar satellites reach ever higher resolutions, they are exciting both scientists and the military. Can they make money too? Quirin Schiermeier reports.
Rolf Werninghaus is getting used to tenterhooks. The TerraSAR-X mission that he and his team have been working on for the past five years was due to lift off on a Russian Dnepr-1 rocket launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at the end of last year.
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