(35) Locating the Moon

[pier4r]

Quote:I wasn't aware of moonbounce.
Does anyone here has experience with it?

Listening to the computer history museum podcast (If I am not mistaken), there is the quest of discovering the radar capabilities of the soviets. The problem: you cannot fly an airplane with electronics and detectors deep in the soviet airspace, so it is rather complicated.

They started to realize that they can pick up reflected signals from missiles going up and directly from the moon. I suspect the arecibo radar telescope was used for that too. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory )