Goodyear Aerospace Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System A-1 Operation Demonstration 1993

The "A-1 Operation Demonstration" and its accompanying ASARS demo in 1983 refer to the operational testing and deployment trials of the ASARS-2 (Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System) for the U.S. Air Force. The same foundational advanced synthetic aperture radar technology was later adapted into the ASARS-1 for the SR-71 Blackbird, replacing the need for traditional wet-film photography with high-speed digital mapping. was a high-resolution, all-weather radar developed by Goodyear Aerospace. a high-resolution, all-weather radar developed by Goodyear Aerospace. Housed in the detachable nose of the SR-71 Blackbird, it provided real-time radar imagery, pinpointed moving or stationary ground targets, and could survey over 100,000 square miles of the Earth's surface in a single hour.