Design and manufacture of atmospheric radar systems

ATRAD has been commissioned by the National Aeronautical Laboratories (NAL) of Japan to manufacture and install a Stratospheric Tropospheric (ST) radar at the Woomera rocket range in the North of South Australia.

NAL are running a multimillion dollar project at Woomera to conduct supersonic flight trials of an experimental scaled unmanned vehicle as the forerunner to future supersonic passenger air travel.

The ATRAD radar will provide continuous wind profile data to the control centre where the launch vehicle firing and control decisions will be made.

The radar, already in production, will be installed late this year ready for the initial trials in early 2002.