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    Giant Radar Antenna Reflector on NASA-ISRO Satellite in Full ‘Bloom’

    An artist's rendering of the NISAR satellite in orbit with its large reflector antenna fully deployed. A long boom connects the main satellite body, which has solar panels, to the massive, circular, fine-mesh antenna. The satellite is pictured high above the curved horizon of the Earth, which shows mountainous terrain and has a pink and purple atmospheric glow.

    Seventeen days after NISAR’s launch from southeastern India, an essential piece of science hardware has unfurled in orbit. Spanning 39 feet (12 meters), the drum-shaped antenna reflector on the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite mission from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully unfurled in low Earth orbit. The reflector had been […]

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