Science & Technology
US to launch joint remote sensing satellite with India early next year
(Last Updated On: November 29, 2023)
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and NASA plan to launch a joint remote sensing satellite for Earth observation in the first quarter of next year, India’s deputy minister for science and technology Jitendra Singh said in a statement on Tuesday.
Singh met a NASA delegation led by its administrator Bill Nelson in New Delhi, the statement said.
NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) is targeted for launch onboard India’s GSLV.
Data from NISAR will be highly suitable for studying the land ecosystems, deformation of solid earth, mountain and polar cryosphere, sea ice and coastal oceans in regional to global scale, geospacialworld.net reported.