Chennai, Aug. 7 -- Launched on July 30 from the Indian spaceport of Sriharikota using GSLV-F16 rocket, the NISAR satellite, jointly developed by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will orbit Earth 14 times a day, scanning nearly all the planet's land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days.
The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) observatory marks not only the first hardware collaboration on an Earth mission between NASA and the ISRO, but also the first satellite to bring together L-band and S-band radar on one spacecraft.
The combination makes for an exceptionally powerful synthetic aperture radar that will provide high-resolution data enabling scientists to comprehensively monitor the planet's land and ice surf...