NASA and ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization, are poised to launch the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center next month This $1.5 billion Earth-observing satellite, weighing nearly three tons, promises to change environmental monitoring with its advanced radar capabilities, scanning land, ice, and...
U.S.-India Satellite Mission to Launch in Spring
The upcoming NASA-Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite mission will provide an unprecedented detailed view of Earth's surface. This joint project between the U.S. and India comes as the two countries strengthen their scientific partnership. NISAR's advanced radar instruments can see through clouds and darkness to...
NASA Open to Collaborate with ISRO to Make India’s Space Station
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator Bill Nelson said the U.S. was open to helping India build its own space station. Nelson met Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh and discussed strengthening cooperation between the two countries in the space sector. The U.S. and India are working on plans to...
India’s Chandraayan-3 Makes a Soft Landing on Moon’s South Pole
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission made space travel history today when it achieved a soft landing near the south pole of Earth’s Moon, just days after Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft crashed while trying to land in the same region. India is now the fourth nation to achieve a soft Moon landing and...
India Joins NASA’s Artemis Accords
Based on the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, the Artemis Accords are a non-binding set of principles designed to guide civil space exploration and use in the 21st century. It is a NASA-led initiative to return humans to the moon by 2025, with the ultimate goal of expanding space exploration...
NASA and India’s ISRO Collaborate on Satellite NISAR
The U.S. and India have partnered to make a one of a kind satellite that can image the Earth. It cost over $1billion to make and is slated to be the most expensive earth imaging satellite ever to be made in the world. Called the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite...