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Captured on Aug. 21, 2025, this image from NISAR's L-band radar shows Maine's Mount Desert Island.
On Aug. 23, 2025, NISAR imaged land adjacent to northeastern North Dakota's Forest River.
NISAR team members at JPL, along with colleagues at ISRO facilities in India, deployed the satellite's radar antenna reflector.
The NISAR satellite uses a radar antenna reflector that's 39 feet (12 meters) in diameter to gather information about Earth's changing surface. The mission scans nearly all the planet's land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days.
The NISAR satellite was encapsulated in its fairing at ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre on July 18, 2025, in preparation for launch no earlier than July 30, 2025.
Lee esta historia en español aquí. Data from NISAR will map changes to Earth’s surface, helping improve crop management, natural hazard monitoring, and tracking of sea ice and glaciers. A new U.S.-India satellite called NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) will provide…
NISAR will track wetland flooding to study how these carbon-rich ecosystems are reacting to climate change. It will generate images like this one from an airborne radar that flew over Peru in 2013.
NISAR made the two-day trip from the ISRO Satellite Integration and Test Establishment (ISITE) in Bengaluru. It arrived on May 16 at the agency's launch facility, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, where it was unpacked.
Lee esta historia en español aquí. From the iconic image of Earthrise taken by Apollo 8 crew, to the famous Pale Blue Dot image of Earth snapped by Voyager I spacecraft, to state-of-the-art observations of our planet by new satellites such…
Work on the NISAR satellite has been completed at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Satellite Integration and Testing Establishment in Bengaluru, and preparations are under way to transport it to the launch site at the agency’s Satish Dhawan Space…
