In a major joint effort, NASA and ISRO are set to launch the NISAR satellite, a $1.5 billion Earth-observing mission that could transform the way we monitor our planet. The launch is scheduled for June 18, 2025, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India. NISAR, short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, will track changes…
Isro’s PSLV-C61/EOS-09 launch SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organisation‘s (Isro) launch of PSLV-C61, aimed at deploying the EOS-09 earth observation satellite into a sun-synchronous polar orbit from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), failed on Sunday.“The launch vehicle performed normal till the second stage and they made an observation in…
BENGALURU: Space startup GalaxEye, which earlier this year completed analysis of the data from the payload it had deployed and tested aboard Isro’s PSLV Orbital Experiment Module (POEM) platform — on the rocket that launched India’s Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission on Dec 30, 2024 — has achieved another success.The firm, its CEO and co-founder…
BENGALURU: Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is spearheading the US side of the Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar) has made public the details of the collaborative mission through the project’s lead US scientist Paul Rosen. As per Nasa, the satellite is set to launch this spring.The mission will observe Earth like no mission before,…