ISRO's NISAR Earth Monitoring Satellite, Built In Collaboration With NASA, Lifts Off
The world's most expensive civilian Earth imaging satellite, NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite), has lifted off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
The GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle)-F16 rocket carrying the satellite, which is a collaboration between Indian space agency ISRO and its US counterpart NASA, lifted off at 5.40 pm on Wednesday. This is the first such collaboration between the two space agencies.
