The NISAR mission is a joint venture between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO.) The satellite, which launched July 30 from India, is designed to observe and map Earth in detail to ...

NASA and India paired up to launch an Earth-mapping satellite on Wednesday capable of tracking even the slightest shifts in land and ice.Watch video of the launch in the player above.The $1.3 billion ...

July 30 (UPI) --NASA announced Wednesday it, in a partnership with the Indian Space Research Organization, launched a radar system to map Earth as never before. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, ...

Satellites in low-Earth orbit play a key role in helping us study and understand our planet. Orbiting at altitudes usually between 100 and 1200 miles (160 and 2,000 kilometers), these satellites are ...

NASA and ISRO's joint NISAR mission, launched in July 2025, has released its first radar images, showcasing unprecedented detail of Earth's surface. The satellite's dual-band radar system captures ...

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR, the first joint satellite of the Indian Space Research Organisation, or ISRO, and NASA, is launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota ...