The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched a sophisticated Earth observation satellite to a sophisticated Earth observation satellite developed in collaboration with the US space agency NASA launched from Sriharikota on its scheduled time.
A joint mission of NASA and ISRO, the Earth satellite Andhra Pradesh, was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota on the south -east coast of India, a ISRO Geosinkronas satellite launch vehicle rocket at 5.40 pm.
The mission was a long conception period of over a decade and a joint investment of over 1.5 billion USD.
Nisar launched the Geosinkronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV-F16 in orbit. Typically, PSLV was used for such a orbit and this is the first time that a GSLV rocket was injected to a satellite in the sun synchronized polar orbit.
“The liftoff and we have a liftoff! GSLV-F16 successfully launched the Nisar ship,” ISRO posted on X.
The Nisar satellite weighs 2,392 kg and was placed in the Sun-Synchronous Orbit.
It will revolve around the Earth every 97 minutes and will send the specific parts of the ocean surfaces with the land and ice surfaces every 12 days.
The mission of the satellite is expected to last for five years.
Earlier today, in a post on X, ISRO said, “Launch day has come for GSLV-F16 and Nisar. GSLV-F16 stands long on pads. Nisar is ready. Liftoff today.”
Union Minister Jitendra Singh has described the mission not only as a satellite but also as the “scientific handshake with the world of India”.
Nisar’s unique dual-band synthetic aperture radar appoints an advanced, novel sweepsar technology, which provides high resolution and large health imagery.
ISRO said that Nisar would give an image of global land and snow-covered surfaces, which would include the island, sea-arms and selected oceans every 12 days.
The primary objective of the Nisar Mission is to study land and ice deformation, land ecosystems and ocean areas for the US and Indian science communities.
The first 90 days of launch will be dedicated to commissioning, or in-arbit checkout (IOC), which aims to prepare the observatory for science operations, ISRO said.
The first mission of its kind was to carry two different frequencies-an L and S-band. Global microwave imaging missions can fully obtain polymetric and interferometric data.
One of the major features of the mission was that all data generated by Nisar would be open sources and would make independently accessible in real time within one to two days of observation and in terms of emergency situations.
This democratization of data is expected to support global scientific research and decision making, especially for developing countries that cannot have access to equal capabilities. (AI)
