Royal Signals and Radar Establishment
52°06′00″N 2°18′58″W / 52.100°N 2.316°W
The Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) was a scientific research establishment within the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the United Kingdom. It was located primarily at Malvern in Worcestershire, England.[1] The RSRE motto was Ubique Sentio (Latin for "I sense everywhere").
History
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RSRE was formed in 1976 by an amalgamation of previous research organizations; these included the
Beginning in 1979, the SRDE and SERL moved to Malvern to join the RRE's location..
In April 1991 RSRE amalgamated with other defence research establishments to form the Defence Research Agency, which in April 1995 amalgamated with more organisations to form the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency. In June 2001 this became independent of the MoD, with approximately two-thirds of it being incorporated into
Research
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Some of the most important technologies developed from work at RSRE are
Predecessor organisation Signals Research and Development Establishment (SRDE) had been involved in the development of military communications satellites, within the U.S. Interim Defense Communication Satellite Program (IDCSP) and the development of the British Skynet 1 and 2 satellite types. The SRDE establishment moved to a RSRE facility at RAF Defford near Malvern in 1980, which had the benefit of flat terrain for good satellite dish positioning and the nearby Bredon Hill for satellite simulators.[3] RSRE was involved in the design and testing of Skynet 4 and its ground facilities and terminals.[4][5]
Contributions to computer science made by the RSRE included
RSRE was an early researcher of
References
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- ISBN 90-5702-481-0
- ^ Harris, Dick (July 2018). "Defford Satellite Communications". Malvern Radar and Technology History Society. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ T C Tozer (April 1987). An Introduction to Military Satellite Communications (PDF) (Report). Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. RSRE Memorandum 3976. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 March 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ P J Skilton (January 1989). Tactical UK Military Satellite Ground Terminals - A Research and Development Review (PDF) (Report). Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. RSRE Memorandum 4262. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 August 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ Postel, J. (7 November 1980). "Internet Meeting Notes – 7-8-9 October 1980". Retrieved 9 February 2022"Internet Meeting Notes";"Internet Delay Experiments";"The Internet History". www.perflensburg.se. Retrieved 9 February 2022;"30 years of the international internet". 19 November 2003. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ Postel, J. (3 May 1979). "Assigned Numbers". USC - Information Sciences Institute. RFC755. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ Study into UK IPv4 and IPv6 allocations (PDF). Reid Technical Facilities Management (Report). Ofcom. 2014. Ofcom/140701-00. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
External links
- Records of the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, The National Archives, UK
- QinetiQ – the commercial successor of DERA and RSRE
- DSTL – the MOD owned successor of DERA and RSRE