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First secret demonstration of radio signals detecting aircraft
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Sir Robert Watson-Watt pioneered the technology that helped win the Battle of Britain, and was knighted for it in 1942 - but outside of his birthplace in Brechin, few people today remember his name.
Radio detection and ranging, radar for short, is now used to keep passengers safe by detecting the flight path of every commercial airplane in the world, but it was developed as the threat of World War Two became acuter to warn of enemy planes on the move.
During the conflict, radar arrays gave the Royal Air Force a crucial edge in detecting and repelling the Nazi Luftwaffe but the man who was honored for their development has been oddly uncelebrated since.
Earth’s rotation is changing speed. This means that, on average, the length of a day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century. 600 million years ago a day lasted just 21 hours.




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Sreedhara Panicker Somanath is an Indian aerospace engineer who is the chairman of the "Indian Space Research Organisation" (ISRO). Under his chairmanship, ISRO carried out the third Indian lunar exploration mission named "Chandrayaan-3". The lander named Vikram and the rover named Pragyaan landed near the lunar south pole region on the 23rd of August 2023 at 18:04 IST, making India the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and the fourth country to demonstrate a soft landing on the Moon's surface. S. Somanath has served as the director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram and director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. He is known for his contributions to launch vehicle design, particularly in launch vehicle systems engineering, structural design, structural dynamics, and pyrotechnics.

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