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US Army Uses Radar To Reflect Off Moon
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keywords: us army signal corps, radar testing, moon contact
Synopsis: The US Army Signal Corps using powerful radar equipment bounce a signal off the Moon and back to its receivers back on Earth with practical applications involving contact or control of spacecraft of the future...(read more)
- Date: 1946
- Duration: 00:02:04
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States












US Army Uses Radar To Reflect Off Moon
The US Army Signal Corps made first radar contact with the moon during Project Diana on January 10, 1946. Scenes of radar towers and antennas that bounce a radar beam off the moon and back to earth. An engineer using a slide rule to make calculations. Animation illustrates radar signal leaving radar antenna on earth, bounces of the surface of the moon and returns to radar antenna on earth scenes of vintage or early animation. Scenes of two men and a woman looking up skyward.
- Related Titles:
- Military Newsreels: 1946 - Issue 8