NASA and ISRO developed the NISAR mission under cooperation enabled by the Outer Space Treaty.
The NISAR mission launched in July 2025.
The NISAR mission represents significant cooperation between NASA and ISRO, building on years of technical collaboration.
The U R Rao Satellite Centre provided the spacecraft bus for the NISAR mission.
The NISAR mission's preliminary images indicate capabilities for monitoring the gain and loss of forest and wetland ecosystems and tracking crop progress around the world.
The NISAR mission was formally based on the US scientific community’s 2007 Decadal recommendation to create the L-band based DESDynI mission.
NASA spent more than $1,000,000,000 on formulation and development of the NISAR mission.
The NISAR mission was scheduled for launch earlier 2024 on an Indian GSLV rocket but was postponed to modify its large deployable antenna to protect it from higher-than-expected temperatures when stowed.
NASA spent more than $1,000,000,000 in formulation and development of the NISAR mission.
NASA is providing an L-band radar and engineering payload for the NISAR mission.
The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission jointly developed with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will provide data for the Surface Deformation and Change designated observable.
Under the Memorandum of Understanding, Survey of India will support ISRO’s NISAR mission by extending its positioning services, including CORS and other ground reference point data.
The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is scheduled to launch in the spring of 2024.
CTrees plans to integrate data from the joint NASA-ISRO NISAR mission, scheduled to launch in early 2024, into LUCA to enhance detection and characterization of disturbances.
Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division, identified three criteria for restarting VERITAS as soon as 2025: securing necessary funding, JPL making progress on independent review recommendations, and JPL successfully launching Europa Clipper and the NISAR mission.
The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is planned to launch in 2024.
The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is planned to launch in 2024.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shipped the S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the joint NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission.
Indian Space Research Organisation has completed the development of a Synthetic Aperture Radar capable of producing extremely high-resolution images for the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission.
NASA is providing the NISAR mission’s L-band SAR, a high-rate communications subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder, and the payload data subsystem.