The objectives of the mission are aimed at revolutionising understanding of the planet. The radar antenna reflector for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission arrived at the spacecraft ...

Seventeen days after NISAR’s launch from southeastern India, an essential piece of science hardware has unfurled in orbit. Spanning 12 metres, the drum-shaped antenna reflector on the NISAR (NASA-ISRO ...

NISAR, a giant orbiting antenna 39 feet in diameter, will monitor changes to glaciers, forests, and the Earth’s crust, providing data to help improve infrastructure and disaster responses.

Preliminary images from the most powerful Earth radar satellite ever launched offer a tantalizing glimpse of the science the mission will be able to deliver.

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The addition of a reflective coating on the spacecraft's large deployable antenna delayed the launch of NISAR. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — Modifications to a large deployable antenna on a joint ...

An Earth-observing radar satellite launched in July jointly between the U.S. and India has returned its first images of our ...

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and Oxford Space Systems (OSS) have confirmed a partnership to build and launch an OSS Wrapped Rib antenna mounted to an SSTL CarbSAR satellite. The In Orbit ...

A 6m-diameter composite reflector frame that could be collapsed into a 1.83m by 0.36m envelope for launch, weigh less than 13 kg and then deploy as expected in the zero-gravity LEO environment. A ...

NASA mission controllers have successfully deployed the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory’s reflector antenna, in what is an important step along the road towards the satellite becoming ...