India's GSLV-F16 rocket successfully placed the NISAR Earth Observation Satellite into its intended Sun-Synchronous Polar Orbit (SSPO) today evening on its scheduled time.
Kapoor, while speaking to ANI, said, "It's a major collaboration between two great agencies, NASA and ISRO. It's going to be very soon placed in orbit around the Earth, at a height of say about 743km. It will scan the entire Earth in about 12 days."
As the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite is set to launch on Wednesday aboard India's GSLV-F16 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Nilesh M Desai, ISRO's Director of Space Applications Centre, termed the mission "a classic example of collaborative ef
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for a series of exciting missions. According to the organisation's chief, Dr V Narayanan, ISRO will launch the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite on July 30 using the GSLV-F16 rocket.
As the first joint Earth observation mission between the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the event marks a defining moment in the journey of Indo-US space cooperation and also in ISRO's overall internation
NISAR is the first mission of its kind, jointly developed by ISRO and NASA. It is an L- and S-band, global, microwave imaging mission, with the capability to acquire fully polarimetric and interferometric data, as per an official statement from ISRO.
On Monday, the Indian Space Research Organisation said that it will launch the NISAR, the first joint Earth observation satellite by ISRO and NASA, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on July 30 at 17:40 IST.
On this occasion he highlighted the significance of leveraging space-based technology to enhance administrative efficiency, in alignment with the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.