The Radom Wachtberg is a radar dome. It serves as a weather protection cover for a radar system. The entire large radar system is officially known as space observation radar TIRA (Tracking and Imaging Radar) and is a research radar of the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Technology.

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The TIRA space surveillance radar primarily serves as an experimental carrier for the development and investigation of radar methods for the detection and reconnaissance of objects in space. TIRA is …

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

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