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Technologies for Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission — The project aims to develop a dual-frequency Ku-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) antenna subarray and the associated transmit-receive module. This system would support a future Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission, which aims at providing enhanced measurement of Snow Water Equivalent required to support improvements to numerical weather prediction and hydrological modeling. Snow information is of critical importance as this resource is under stress from warming temperatures and shifts in precipitation regimes while providing a vital freshwater resource over a large fraction of the Northern Hemisphere.