The US Air Force on Wednesday handed over NISAR, an earth statement satellite tv for pc collectively developed by NASA and ISRO, to the Indian house company. A US Air Force C-17 plane carrying the NASA-ISRO artificial aperture radar (NISAR) has landed in Bengaluru, the US Consulate in Chennai mentioned.
The satellite tv for pc is an consequence of a collaboration between the American house company NASA and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
“Touchdown in Bengaluru! @ISRO receives NISAR (@NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) on a @USAirforce C-17 from @NASAJPL in California, setting the stage for final integration of the Earth observation satellite, a true symbol of #USIndia civil space collaboration. #USIndiaTogether,” the US Consulate General, Chennai tweeted.
NISAR will probably be utilized by ISRO for quite a lot of functions together with agricultural mapping, and landslide-prone areas.
The satellite tv for pc is predicted to be launched in 2024 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh, right into a near-polar orbit.
Meanwhile, ISRO additionally introduced that it efficiently carried out an “extremely challenging” managed re-entry experiment of the decommissioned orbiting Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1) satellite tv for pc. “The satellite re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and would have disintegrated over the Pacific Ocean”, the Bengaluru-headquartered nationwide house company mentioned on Twitter on Tuesday.
The last impression area estimated is in the deep Pacific Ocean inside the anticipated latitude and longitude boundaries, an ISRO assertion mentioned.
The low Earth satellite tv for pc was launched on October 12, 2011, as a joint satellite tv for pc enterprise of ISRO and the French house company, CNES for tropical climate and local weather research.
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