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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Marc Seibert, the manager for Tracking and Timing Integration in the Research and Technology Management Office, stands near one of the three antennas that comprise the KA-Band Objects Observation and Monitoring, or Ka-BOOM, System. The Ka-BOOM project is one of the final steps in developing the techniques to build a high power, high resolution radar system capable of becoming a Near Earth Object Early Warning System. While also capable of space communication and radio science experiments, developing radar applications is the primary focus of the arrays. The 40-foot-diameter dish antenna arrays are near the former Vertical Processing Facility, which has been demolished. Photo credit: NASA_Jim Grossmann