NISAR Satellite Mounted on GSLV, Launch Scheduled for Tomorrow

Sriharikota | Source: ISRO/ANI

ISRO announced that the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite has been mounted on the GSLV-F16 for launch at 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday from Sriharikota. The 2,392-kg Earth observation satellite will be injected into a 743-km sun-synchronous orbit. NISAR, equipped with dual-frequency SAR (NASA’s L-band and ISRO’s S-band), will provide all-weather, day-and-night data every 12 days for applications like ground deformation, ice movement, soil moisture, disaster response, and resource mapping. The mission has a five-year life, with initial 90 days for in-orbit commissioning.