Story by Erin Thompson | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 01.05.2024
On 10 January 1946, the U.S. Signal Corps at the Evans Signal Laboratory in New Jersey became the first in history to reflect an electronic signal off the surface of the moon. Project DIANA, named for the Roman moon goddess, was the Army’s first foray into radar astronomy. Not only did it herald the age of space exploration, it had military implications for future communications, unmanned......
