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India and US, in a joint mission are going to launch the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota which will image the global land and ice-covered surfaces, including islands, sea-ice and selected oceans every 12 days.

NISAR mission's primary objective is to study land & ice deformation, land ecosystems, and oceanic regions in areas of common interest to the US and Indian science communities.

This is the biggest collaboration to date between India and the US. NASA has contributed the L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), a high-rate telecommuni...