Nellore: S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload built at the Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad, of the Indian Space Research Organisation has been shipped to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California. It will be integrated with the L-Band SAR Payload of JPL for the Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar) mission which is scheduled to launch in late 2021.
The mission will have a minimum lifetime of three years. The payload was flagged off by Isro Chairman Dr K. Sivan recently in the virtual mode.
Isro said the Nisar satellite will provide a detailed view of the Earth to observe and measure some of the planet’s most complex processes, including ecosystem disturbances, ice-sheet collapse, and natural hazards. As with Nasa missions, the Nisar data will be openly available, free of charge.
The mission will also be capable of supporting disaster response through expedited event-driven downlinking, processing, and delivery of relevant…