Chennai, July 30 -- 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 effort between two great democratic countries."

"This is a historic moment for both ISRO as well as NASA because it is a joint collaborative project and considered to be one of the costliest missions ever... It is a classic example of collaborative effort between two great democratic countries - India and the United States of America and as well as a collaboration between NASA and ISRO," Desai told ANI.

He said that it is a unique t...