THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK
Chennai, July 28: ISRO has announced an ambitious schedule of upcoming space missions, including the much-anticipated Gaganyaan project and the launch of a joint satellite with NASA.
According to ISRO chief Dr. V. Narayanan, the agency will send the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite into orbit on July 30 aboard the GSLV-F16 rocket.
Designed to map Earth’s surface every 12 days, NISAR will capture high-resolution images across a 242 km swath, regardless of weather or lighting conditions, aiding climate research, disaster management, and Earth science studies.
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Equipped with NASA’s L-band and ISRO’s S-band radar systems, the satellite will detect ground changes with centimeter-level accuracy, making it critical for monitoring glaciers, vegetation shifts, earthquakes, and infrastructure stress.
This data will play a key role in understanding environmental changes and mitigating the impact of natural disasters.
Providing an update on the human spaceflight program, Narayanan said three uncrewed flights will precede the Gaganyaan mission, likely scheduled for March 2027.
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The first of these, set for December, will carry Vyommitra, a humanoid robot, to test critical systems in space. If successful, two additional uncrewed missions will follow next year, paving the way for India’s first crewed spaceflight.
