Chennai, Feb 5 (UNI) The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission (NISAR),
a joint Earth-observing mission, is one of the biggest project
being collaborated with between the US Space Agency the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and
the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
NISAR will be launched in early 2024 from the Satish Dhawan
Space Center, SHAR Range in Sriharikota, into a near-polar
orbit at an altitude of 747 km with an inclination of 98.4 deg.
ISRO will be using its heaviest home grown rocket GSLV-MkII/
LVM-3 for the mission which will take place from the Second
Launch Pad, according to information collected from the NASA
website on the NISAR mission.
The NISAR Mission will measure Earth's changing ecosystems,
dynamic surfaces, and ice masses providing information about
biomass, natural hazards, sea level rise, and groundwater 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.
NISAR will map global land biomass, the amount of organic
material from plants, every 12 days.
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