India, July 30 -- An Indo-US earth-tracking satellite, NISAR, is set to launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India's southeastern coast Wednesday.
A collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, the first-of-its-kind satellite will lift off aboard an ISRO Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle on a mission to scan nearly all the Earth's land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days.
The launch, set for 8:10 a.m. ET, will be live telecast on NASA+ and the agency's YouTube channel.
With its two radar instruments - an S-band system provided by ISRO and an L-band system provided by NASA - the NISAR mission will provide high-resolution data to help decision-makers, communities, and scientists monitor major infrastru...