Effective cross-sectional area of the target as seen by the radar (measured in m^2 or dBm^2).
What is RCS?
100
The two types of tube amplifiers.
What are klystrons and traveling wave tubes?
100
The SSA phased array radar we learned about.
What is AN/FPS-85 (Eglin)?
100
This jamming targets a ground station's receiver.
What is downlink jamming?
100
The angle between true north and line-of-sight, measure in the horizontal plane.
What is azimuth?
200
Three types of RCS contributors.
What is structural, propulsion, and avionics?
200
Three ways to enhance SNR of a target.
What are higher transmission power, lower system loses, and minimize system temperature?
200
The three ground-based missile warning phased array radars we learned & their locations.
What are PAVE PAWS (Cape Cod MA & Clear AK), UEWR (Beale CA, Fylingdales, Thule), and PARCS (Cavalier)?
200
Passive measures -> attack detection and characterization -> active measures -> recovery operations is the process for this type of space control.
What is defensive space control?
200
Two bands frequently used by military for warning and surveillance missions.
What is UHF and X-band?
300
These frequencies are highly weather dependent and not well suited for long-range surveillance.
What are high frequencies?
300
The design and structure of antennas affect these 4 parameters in the track and search radar range equations.
What are gain, effective area, system noise temperature, and losses?
300
Strategic missile warning must be these 5 things.
What is timely, accurate, continuous, unambiguous, and adhere to ITW/AA standards?
300
The three bands most relevant to space control/SATCOM.
What is UHF, SHF, and EHF?
300
The two types of continuous wave radars.
What are modulated and unmodulated?
400
The radar range equation connects these 4 things.
What are target properties, radar characteristics, range, and properties of the medium?
400
The transitional structure between guiding device and free space.
What is an antenna?
400
An object must have these two things to be assigned a satellite catalog number.
What is international designator and valid ELSET?
400
These many satellites are required to determine geolocation of an EMI source.
What is two?
400
Along with duplexer, this is used for additional protection against strong interference.
What is limiter/switch?
500
Standard measure of a radar's ability to detect a given target at a given range from the radar.
What is SNR?
500
These are four ways to change radar design/performance parameters to increase range without affecting measurement quality.
What is increase transmit power or antenna size, decrease system noise or losses, increase scan time or minimum target size, and decrease angular scan area?
500
The bistatic phased-array radar we learned about.
What is AN/FPS-85?
500
This can be determined from the TDOA and FDOA.
What are lines of position (whose intersection forms the elliptical error probable)?
500
The three types of non-coherent integration.
What is non-coherent (video integration), binary integration, and cumulative detection?