NASA and ISRO to Launch NISAR Satellite on Scheduled Date
Following the triumph of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission and the anticipation of upcoming missions, NASA has announced a joint venture with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) called the NISAR mission, also known as the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission. This collaborative effort seeks to obtain a comprehensive understanding of Earth by examining its forests and wetlands ecosystems and their influence on climate change. The launch date for the NISAR mission is projected to be determined within the coming year.
About the NISAR mission
According to a report by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the NISAR mission plays a crucial role in studying the Earth’s global carbon cycle and climate change. NISAR would be the first radar to map the Earth using two radar frequencies, L-band and S-band. These frequencies study and measure natural disasters such as earthquakes and changes in the Earth’s surface, including its smallest movements. NASA said: “NISAR’s global and rapid coverage provides unprecedented opportunities for disaster response, providing data to help mitigate and assess damage and observations before and after disasters in a short period of time.
According to reports, the NISAR mission led by NASA and ISRO is expected to launch in early 2024. The mission aims to study the Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems, which are responsible for large amounts of greenhouse gases. These gases are polluting our climate and these issues need to be addressed with extreme urgency as the population is growing rapidly.
NISAR’s insights allow officials to mitigate or develop an action plan to reduce the consequences of natural hazards. With NISAR’s readily available data, decision-makers around the world can address the effects of climate change and take remedial action.
Contribution of NASA and ISRO NISAR
In 2014, NASA and ISRO signed a partnership for the NISAR mission. According to reports, NASA will provide an L-band synthetic aperture radar, a high-speed communications subsystem for scientific data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder, and a payload subsystem for the mission. On the other hand, ISRO provides spacecraft bus, S-band radar, launch vehicle and all necessary launch services.
