The next time the satellite is airborne, it will be aboard ISRO’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark II rocket, which will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center off India’s southeast coast in 2024 and deliver NISAR into near-polar Earth orbit.
Once operational, NISAR will be able to collect day and night measurements under all weather conditions, and its wealth of data will help researchers better understand a wide range of Earth science topics, including landslides, groundwater loss and the carbon cycle.
More about the mission
NISAR is the first collaboration between NASA and ISRO on an Earth-observing mission. JPL, which is operated for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, leads the US component of the project and provides the mission’s L-band SAR. NASA is also providing radar reflector antennas, deployable booms, a high-rate communications subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder, and payload data subsystems. ISRO is providing spacecraft bus, S-band SAR, launch vehicle and associated launch services and satellite mission operations.
To know more about NISAR, visit:
https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/
