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NASA hands over NISAR satellite to ISRO

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• 2023-03-09
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NISAR will map the globe in 12 days and provide data for understanding changes in Earth’s ecosystems; it is a “true symbol of U.S.-India civil space collaboration”, an official said

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has received the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite from the U.S. space agency. NISAR is a Low Earth Orbit observatory jointly developed by NASA and ISRO.

According to ISRO, NISAR will map the entire globe in 12 days and provide spatially and temporally consistent data for understanding changes in Earth’s ecosystems, ice mass, vegetation biomass, sea level rise, groundwater and natural hazards, including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides.