NISAR mission
- August 13, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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NISAR mission
Subject: Science and Technology
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Thursday’s failure, however, is a big cause of worry for the NISAR mission
- NISAR stands for NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Mission
- It aims to study the hazards and global environmental changes and slated to launched in 2020-21.
- NISAR is a dual frequency (L & S Band) Radar Imaging Satellite. It will be the first radar imaging satellite to use dual frequency.
- Will be launched in a Sun Synchronous Low -Earth
- It is designed to observe and take measurements of some of the planet’s most complex processes, including ecosystem disturbances, ice-sheet collapse, sea level rise, and groundwater and natural hazards such as earth quakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and land slides and will support a host of other applications
- NISAR will observe Earth’s land and ice-covered surfaces globally with 12-day regularity on ascending and descending passes, sampling Earth on average every 6 days for a baseline 3-year mission.
- The satellite is likely to be launched from India aboard an Indian launch vehicle.