Thales radar tracks the Crew Dragon!

Through autonomous surveillance we detected and tracked, from our site in Hengelo, both the Crew Dragon and the Second Stage while they passed over Europe with 28.000 km/h. To witness this special moment we invited Astronaut André Kuipers and Major Petra Wijnja from the Royal Netherlands Air Force to join us in Hengelo.

Read our news story at https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/netherlands/news/thales-radar-tracks-crew-dragon-its-way-iss

Impressive! 200 kilometers altitude, and you see it already over the Atlantic. Andre Kuipers, ESA Astronaut