21-07-2025
NASA-ISRO satellite NISAR launch on July 30
The NASA-ISRO collaboration, NISAR, is set to launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The launch is scheduled for July 30. GSLV-F16 will deploy the satellite into a Sun-synchronous orbit. NISAR will use advanced radar technology to scan the Earth. It will provide all-weather, day and night data.
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The NASA-ISRO joint satellite NISAR will be launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on July 30 at 5.40 pm, the space agency said on to ISRO, GSLV-F16 will inject the Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite into a 743 km Sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 98.4 will observe Earth with a swath of 242 km and high spatial resolution, using SweepSAR technology for the first time, ISRO said in a satellite will scan the entire globe and provide all weather, day and night data at 12-day interval and enable a wide range of applications, it can detect even small changes in the Earth's surface such as ground deformation, ice sheet movement and vegetation dynamics, according to the space applications include sea ice classification, ship detection, shoreline monitoring, storm characterisation, changes in soil moisture, mapping and monitoring of surface water resources and disaster weighing 2,392 kg, is a unique Earth observation satellite and the first satellite to observe the Earth with a dual frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (NASA's L-band and ISRO's S-band) both using NASA's 12m unfurlable mesh reflector antenna, integrated to ISRO's modified I3K satellite NISAR launch is the result of strong technical cooperation between ISRO & NASA/JPL technical teams for more than a decade, the release said.
