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This Month's Covers....
Front and Back Cover: This beautiful artist concept illustrates how a massive collision of objects, perhaps as large as the planet
Pluto, smashed together to create the dust ring around the nearby star Vega. Illustration is by NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
(SSC) (http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/image/26) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. The first article in this issue by
Hussein et al., "From Project Management to Planetary Defense," discusses the challenges, results, and recommendations of
implementing a planetary defense program against a threat like a comet due to impact the Earth in only two years. Read about
how a systems engineering approach was applied to the problem by the Planetary Defense Team Project participants in the International Space University 2015 Space Studies Program.
Back Cover Upper Insets: A marine target at sea and an ISAR reconstruction of a marine target. Read about recent research
developments in radar signal processing in the article by Xu et al., "Focus-Before-Detection Radar Signal Processing: Part II-
Recent Developments," on pages 34-49 in this issue.
Back Cover Lower Insets: Experimental rocket launch (photo provided by Andrzej Chwastek from the Polish Rocket Society),
and an example cross-ambiguity function with rocket echo from a transmitter 2.1 seconds after launch. Read more about the
science of detecting and tracking experimental rockets in the article by Malanowski et al., "Detection of Supersonic Rockets
Using Passive Bistatic Radar," on pages 24-33 in this issue.

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