Kartavya Kant Tiwari

The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission has been developed by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which launched on July 30, 2025 and will begin science operations later this fall. On 15 August, the satellite adequately deployed its 12-metre radar antenna reflector. Now, engineers have activated their state-of-the-art L-band and S-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, which will begin providing the first and sharpest images of how Earth's ice, land and vegetation have changed at an unprecedented level of detail. NISAR Mission Progress and Upcoming Science Operations As per NASA, initial checks were carried out and showed spacecraft and radar payloads were functioning normally. The mission team began the lifting process with NISAR, which has been orbiting Earth from an altitude of 420 miles since its launch on August 26. Over the coming weeks, and into December, it will return its first science-quality radar images, and full-scale operations...