isro: Quad push: ISRO taking space ties with US, Japan and Australia to a higher orbit
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Quad push: ISRO taking space ties with US, Japan & Australia to a higher orbit
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by Swarajya Staff - Mar 11, 2021 12:23 PM
Image from Wikipedia. Artistâs concept of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite in orbit.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has shipped the S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Indo-US joint initiative to develop the worldâs first earth observation satellite that will have two separate radars to produce high-resolution images.
On 4 March, the S-band SAR was virtually flagged off from ISROâs Space Application Centre in Ahmedabad to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the NASA in Californiaâs Pasendana.
The NASA will now integrate this S-band with the L-band payload which it is building. Upon the completion of the integration process of the two radars, the NASA will send it back to India. The remaining parts of the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite will be built domestically and the ISRO will subsequently utilise the GS
An agreement was signed by the then NASA administrator and ISRO chairman in 2014 in Canada. NISAR satellite to be launched in 2023.   |  Photo Credit: Twitter
Sriharikota: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) ticked off an important job from their to-do list. They created an S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) that will be used in the world s first earth observation satellite using two radars. This mission is a joint effort with NASA and the ISRO-made radar was shipped to them recently.
This is a part of an agreement that was signed by NASA administrator Charles Bolden and the then ISRO chairman named K Radhakrishnan on September 30, 2014, in Toronto, Canada.