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NISAR satellite sends first radar images of Earth’s surface

September 26, 2025 admin

Captured on August 21, this image from NISAR’s L-band radar shows Maine’s Mount Desert Island. Green indicates forest, while magenta represents hard or regular surfaces, such as bare ground and buildings. The magenta area on the island’s northeast end is the town of Bar Harbor. Photo: Special Arrangement The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Earth-observing…

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ISRO gearing up for next U.S. collaboration with BlueBird communications satellite launch after NISAR

August 1, 2025 admin

ISRO’s launch vehicle GSLV-F16 carrying the NISAR earth observation satellite lifts off from the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on July 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hoping to launch the Block 2 BlueBird communications satellite, developed by the U.S.-based AST…

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Why NISAR Is Like No Mission Before

January 8, 2025 admin

New Delhi: The US-India NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar or NISAR mission will observe the Earth down to the centimetre, monitoring its land and ice surfaces, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scientist Paul Rosen said. The agreement was inked on 2014 to track changes in wetlands to ice sheets to infrastructure damaged by natural disasters through the…

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Aditya mission continuously sending data about Sun: ISRO chief

April 22, 2024 admin

ISRO chief S. Somnath on April 21 said that the Aditya L1 solar mission of the premier space research agency is continuously sending data about the Sun. | Photo Credit: ANI ISRO chief S. Somnath on April 21 said that the Aditya L1 solar mission of the premier space research agency is continuously sending data…

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What next for ISRO after Chandrayaan-3 mission?

August 22, 2023 admin

Representational image of a launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota | Photo Credit: PTI A mission to study the Sun, and launching a climate observation satellite, a test vehicle as part of Gaganyaan human space flight programme and an Indo-US synthetic aperture radar — ISRO has a packed schedule following the highly anticipated…

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