BERLIN, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- After five years of development and construction, Germany's first space radar was installed near the city of Koblenz, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) announced on Tuesday.
The technology, worth 44.5 million euros (52.3 million U.S. dollars), was designed to detect and monitor space debris in low Earth orbit, according to the DLR. Operators of satellites could use the data to slow down or change the flight altitudes of their spacecraft in case of an imminent collision.
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