Chennai, July 22 -- The partnership between US Space Agency NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for the joint earth observing mission NISAR, scheduled to be launched from Sriharikota on July 30, was signed a decade back in 2014.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and then ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan had signed the documents in Toronto on September 30, 2014, to launch a joint Earth-observing satellite mission and establish a pathway for future joint missions to explore Mars, NASA said ahead of the mission from the Indian spaceport at 1740 hrs on July 30 using ISRO's heaviest rocket GSLV-F16 from the Second Launch Pad.

NISAR is a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and ISRO with the goal to make global measu...