NISAR, which stands for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, will scan the Earth and provide high-resolution day and night data on all weather across the Earth.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched NISAR satellite a sophisticated earth observation satellite developed in collaboration with the American space agency NASA launched from Sriharikota on Wednesday evening.

ISRO is launching the joint NASA-ISRO NISAR Earth observation satellite today at 5:40 PM from Sriharikota using a GSLV-F16 rocket. This first-of-its-kind hardware collaboration will provide high-resolution data to monitor natural hazards,