This is indeed what ONERA's Nostradamus radar can do, if its electromagnetic sight is pointed towards the Moon rather than towards the horizon... Until now Nostradamus, ONERA's" sky wave" transhorizon radar, has used the atmosphere's stratification properties to detect objects well beyond the horizon
During the launch of ExoMars ESA mission on 14 March, ABISS radar breadboard developed by ONERA has been operated to confirm the progress of the martian mission with the successful passage of the launcher on its transfer orbit. The European radar ABISS for space surveillance is a bistatic radar" breadboard," *developed for the European Space Agency (ESA), now experimented by ONERA
