New Delhi, July 27 -- Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh disclosed that the much-anticipated launch of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite mission is scheduled for July 30, 2025, at 17:40 hrs from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

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 international collaborations, he said. The mission will be launched aboard India's GSLV-F16 rocket.

Dr Jitendra Singh, who has been monitoring the mission closely, said the laun...