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TIRA Space Surveillance Radar

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TIRA Space Surveillance Radar

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    Location: Wachtberg, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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    October 4, 2017

    Mountain biking

    From the back you can see the whole globe of the space observation radar TIRA from the Frauenhofer Institut.
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    October 14, 2020

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    The entire large radar system is officially known as the TIRA space observation radar (Tracking and Imaging Radar) and is a research radar by Fraunhofer FHR.
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    April 19, 2022

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    The radome protecting a telescope is said to be the largest in the world.
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