The India-US joint mission to study climate change with the world's most expensive Earth imaging satellite is in its final stages and the launch is expected in the first quarter of 2024, a senior NASA official has said. Speaking exclusively to NDTV on Tuesday, Laurie Leshin, the Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) will also help in predicting hazards like earthquakes and tsunamis, and that respect for India's space programme is "off the charts" after Chandrayaan-3.
