CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -NISAR is a joint NASA-ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) Earth-observing mission with the goal to make global measurements of the causes and consequences of land surface changes.

Detailed explanation-2: -NISAR is a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

Detailed explanation-3: -The NISAR satellite which costs $1.5 billion is set to be launched in January 2024 from Sriharikota aboard the ISRO’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.

Detailed explanation-4: -The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is a joint project between NASA and ISRO to co-develop and launch a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar on an Earth observation satellite. The satellite will be the first radar imaging satellite to use dual frequencies.

Detailed explanation-5: -On Sept. 30, 2014, NASA and ISRO signed a partnership to collaborate on and launch NISAR. The mission is targeted to launch in 2024. NASA is providing the mission’s L-band synthetic aperture radar, a high-rate communication subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder and payload data subsystem.