NISER, ISRO-NASA Cooperative Satellite Project Set to Launch in Early 2023

Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh stated on Friday that the ISRO-NASA joint mission NISER (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite, which aims to make worldwide measurements of land surface changes using sophisticated radar imagery, will be launched in early 2023.

He said NISAR is a collaborative Earth-Observation project between ISRO and NASA for global observations across all land masses, including the Polar cryosphere and the Indian Ocean area, in a written response to a question in the Lok Sabha.

“NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISER) has not been launched yet. NISER is proposed to be launched in early 2023,” Mr. Singh, who is also the Minister of State for Space, said this.

It’s a dual-band (L-band and S-band) radar imaging mission that can monitor small changes in land, vegetation, and the cryosphere in complete polarimetric and interferometric modes.