The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), the first joint satellite of the Indian and U.S. house businesses, will be launched by Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) on July 30 at 5.40 p.m. from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
The GSLV-F16 rocket will inject the NISAR satellite right into a 743 km Sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 98.40 levels.
The NISAR satellite, weighing 2,392 kg, is a novel Earth remark satellite, and the first satellite to observe the Earth with a twin frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) — NASA’s L-band and ISRO’s S-band — each utilizing NASA’s 12m unfurlable mesh reflector antenna, built-in to ISRO’s modified I3K satellite bus, in accordance to ISRO.
NISAR will observe Earth with a swathe of 242 km and excessive spatial decision, utilizing SweepSAR know-how for the first time.
“The satellite will scan the entire globe and provide all weather, day and night data at 12-day intervals, and enable a wide range of applications. NISAR can detect even small changes in the Earth’s surface, such as ground deformation, ice sheet movement, and vegetation dynamics. Further applications include sea ice classification, ship detection, shoreline monitoring, storm characterization, changes in soil moisture, mapping and monitoring of surface water resources, and disaster response,” the ISRO said.
It additional added that the NISAR launch is the outcome of sturdy technical cooperation between ISRO and the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory technical groups for greater than a decade.
Multiple ISRO centres have contributed to NISAR, together with the Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad, which is offering the mission’s S-band SAR, and the U.R. Rao Satellite Centre, which is offering the spacecraft bus.
