Across Alaska, 15 remote radars spin every minute of the day, 365 days a year. Since the Cold War, they've monitored the airspace above Alaska and across much of the Bering Sea and Arctic. Even with ...

How cold was the cold war? The workers who built the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line in the mid-1950s liked to toss a glass of water into the air just so they could hear the firecracker-like report ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- An interceptor missile launched by a Navy Aegis destroyer for the first time used data from a remote radar to help it track and hit an intermediate range ballistic missile ...

A group of strategic Air Force radar facilities along the North Slope are at an accelerated risk of degradation. Erosion driven by climate change is happening decades sooner than the military ...

The European Space Agency’s launch of the Sentinel-1 satellite has made 20-meter resolution radar imagery of the whole planet freely available. The “all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of ...

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Two polar bears fatally attacked a worker at a remote radar site in the Canadian Arctic last week in one of the rare deadly polar bear attacks on humans, the facility’s operator said. The encounter ...