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ISRO’s Multi Object Tracking Radar (MOTR)

ISRO’s MOTR is a L-Band long range AESA Radar made indigenously. It was planned in 2012 as ISRO was dependent on NASA for Debris data and had problem in rocket locating.

Our MOTR was completed as planned in 2015 and costed around Rs.245 crores , it was very cheap as in international market it cost around 800 crore and only 5 countries has capability to build it.

MOTR is a L-Band AESA radar made up of Some 4608 T/R modules populate the rectangular array and the beam, which is electronically steered, can track 10 objects at a time.

Its major use includes:
1)It will be used for tracking space debris (in real time) that could harm Indian space assets.

2)To track and monitor the rocket launch for range safety purposes.

3)The future application of the radar would be to track and monitor the re-entry capsules of the future manned missions.

Apart from space the radar has immense value for military applications, particularly for air
defence. Radar of this specific configuration will be suitable for ballistic missile defence. One specific capability in this regard is that it can detect and track a 50×50 cm object at a distance of 1000 km
and a 30×30 cm object at a distance of 800 km. This will enable the radar to track ballistic missiles with a range of 4000 to 5000 km.

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