The joint mission of ISRO and NASA will be launched in March 2025. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar or Nisar satellite will go into space. 5 thousand crore rupees will be spent on this. This earth-observing satellite will monitor changes in the surface.
It will be launched by ISRO on the GSLV Mark-II satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikotta, Andhra Pradesh. The Nisar satellite weighs about 2.8 tons and will be positioned 747 km above the Earth’s surface.
For this, it has been reported that important and delicate equipment has arrived in India from America last October. The satellite will scan the surface and ice changes twice every 12 days and take high-resolution photos.
As a result, changes in surface structure, ice melting or new formation, biodiversity etc. will be closely monitored. It can detect changes within an inch of the surface, even in the dark and in bad weather.
It can map the topography of the soil by dissecting dense forest cover. This mission has been planned for 3 years by the Indian space research organization ISRO and the American space research organization NASA.