https://spacewatch.global/tag/a-midsummer-nights-dream/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Mon, 10 Dec 2018 06:00:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/a-midsummer-nights-dream/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/british-military-space-uks-dstl-puts-out-tender-for-project-oberon-sar-satellite/ Mon, 10 Dec 2018 06:00:51 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11840 The UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down has issued a tender for the development of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite reconnaissance system that weighs less than 500 kilograms, with the aim of having an on-orbit demonstrator satellite by 2022 and the start of an operational constellation for the UK's Ministry of Defence by 2025, subject to funding, according to a report in Wired UK.]]>