New Delhi: The successful launch of the world’s most expensive and unique Earth observation satellite jointly developed by the US and Indian scientists in a decade has given a big push to India-US space cooperation and has been honored as a milestone in space cooperation between the two countries led by US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Wednesday’s launch came after NASA and ISRO successfully collaborating on the Exiom -4 mission, under which Indian astronaut Shubanshu Shukla was sent to the International Space Station for microgravity experiments.
Congratulating ISRO and NASA, Space Minister Jitendra Singh called Nisar Mission “game changer in accurate management of disasters”.In a post on X, he said: “The ability to penetrate through Nisar’s fog, dense clouds, ice layers, etc., etc. It creates a pathbreaking enabler for aviation and shipping areas. Nisar’s inputs will benefit the whole world community … in the true spirit of ‘Vishwabandhu’. “He” also expressed pride in being associated with the space department at one time when ISRO is entering a global milestone one after the other “.
ISRO president V Narayanan said that Nisar “has brought both agencies closer than ever”.Although NASA began studying concepts for a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mission, inspired by the Decadel Survey of the National Academy of Sciences of the Agency Science Program in 2007, the US chose to cooperate with India for a huge SAR-based satellite for the Nisar program in 2014. Nisar in Toronto on 30 September 2014.Prior to 2014, the US and India had collaborated on a group of space missions, including the Chandrayaan -1 mission, under which NASA sent its payload (Moon Mineralji Mapper) to ISRO’s spacecraft for the Moon Mission, which played an important role in finding water on the moon. But the Nisar program is called the first large-ticket ($ 1.5 billion) satellite mission invested by both sides. NASA has contributed to L-Band SAR, a high-rate telecom subcistem, GPS receiver and a deployment 12-meter unavoidable antenna. ISRO, on its behalf, has provided a spacecraft bus to accommodate the S-Band SAR payload, both payload, GSLV-F16 launch vehicle and all affiliated launch services.
