NASA administrator Bill Nelson will visit the ISRO facilities in Bengaluru on November 30 to review the ongoing work on the NISAR spacecraft, a joint Earth-observing mission of NASA and ISRO.
“I will join Rakesh [former Indian astronaut Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma (retd)] tomorrow. We will both see NISAR together. I am looking forward to this visit. There are two radars on the NISAR in two different bands, one is built by India and the other by the U.S.,” Mr. Nelson told reporters here on Wednesday.
NISAR — short for NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar — is undergoing testing and integration at ISRO facilities in Bengaluru prior to its launch early next year from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota onboard ISRO’s GSLV Mark-II launch vehicle.
