The jagged ridges of Southern California's Tehachapi Mountains formed the backdrop to NASA's brightly-colored NF-15B testbed aircraft during a research mission.
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Project: Space-Based Range Demonstration and Certification (SBRDC)
The jagged ridges of Southern California’s Tehachapi Mountains formed the backdrop to NASA’s brightly-colored NF-15B testbed aircraft during a research mission. NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center conducted a series of ground and airborne tests of improved space-based communications and tracking technologies during the SBRDC project under the Exploration Communications and Navigation Systems (ECANS) program.February 26, 2007NASA Photo / Lori Losey› F-15B SBRDC/ECANS Project Description