Distributed-array radar system comprising an array of interconnected elementary satellites

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A radar system for primary and secondary airspace surveillance, and especially for the detection and tracking of moving targets, consisting of a number of elementary satellites connected to nonrigid structures and of a main satellite which, performs accurate measurement of the position and altitude of elementary satellites and real-time adaptive combination of radar signals coming from them, so as to provide a large-phased array operating in the microwave band. This system overcomes the limitations on dimensioned large space-bound antennae found in the literature, minimizing the incidence and effects of undesired echoes and interference and assuring high detection accuracy. The fact that …