India's ISRO and US' NASA to launch NISAR satellite on July 30. All you need to know about it
India's GSLV-F16 rocket will inject the Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite into a 743-km Sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 98.4 degrees.
The launch of satellite NISAR, the first joint Earth observation satellite by ISRO and NASA, will mark a key milestone in Earth observation technology.
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