“Historic moment for ISRO and NASA”: ISRO SAC director Nilesh Desai on NISAR satellite launch
As the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite is set to launch on Wednesday aboard India’s GSLV-F16 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Nilesh M Desai, ISRO’s Director of Space Applications Centre, termed the mission “a classic example of collaborative effort between two great democratic countries.”
“This is a historic moment for both ISRO as well as NASA because it is a joint collaborative project and considered to be one of the costliest missions ever… It is a classic example of collaborative effort between two great democratic countries – India and the United States of America and as well as a collaboration between NASA and ISRO,” Mr. Desai told ANI.
He said that it is a unique type of radar system because it has a lot of applications, especially related to land deformation studies, ecosystem structures, disaster management, as well as environment monitoring, and oceanography.
“Studies will also be carried out using the data available from these two synthetic aperture radars, especially in interferometric mode, and there is a lot of excitement among all the scientists of the whole world because it is a science mission,” he said.
-ANI
