NASA will host a information convention at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, July 21, to debate the upcoming NISAR (NASA-ISRO Artificial Aperture Radar) mission.
The Earth-observing satellite tv for pc, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between NASA and ISRO (Indian House Analysis Organisation), carries a complicated radar system that can assist defend communities by offering a dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth in unprecedented element and detecting the motion of land and ice surfaces all the way down to the centimeter.
The NISAR mission will carry off from ISRO’s Satish Dhawan House Centre in Sriharikota, on India’s southeastern coast. Launch is focused for no sooner than late July.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California will stream the briefing dwell on its X, Facebook, and YouTube channels. Learn to watch NASA content by a wide range of platforms, together with social media.
Members within the information convention embrace:
- Nicky Fox, affiliate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
- Karen St. Germain, director, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters
- Wendy Edelstein, deputy venture supervisor, NISAR, NASA JPL
- Paul Rosen, venture scientist, NISAR, NASA JPL
To ask questions by telephone, members of the media should RSVP no later than two hours earlier than the beginning of the occasion to: rexana.v.vizza@jpl.nasa.gov. NASA’s media accreditation policy is out there on-line. Questions will be requested on social media in the course of the briefing utilizing #AskNISAR.
With its two radar devices — an S-band system supplied by ISRO and an L-band system supplied by NASA — NISAR will use a method referred to as artificial aperture radar (SAR) to scan practically all of the planet’s land and ice surfaces twice each 12 days. Every system’s sign is delicate to completely different sizes of options on Earth’s floor, and every focuses on measuring completely different attributes, reminiscent of moisture content material, floor roughness, and movement.
These capabilities will assist scientists higher perceive processes concerned in pure hazards and catastrophic occasions, reminiscent of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, land subsidence, and landslides.
Moreover, NISAR’s cloud penetrating capability will support pressing responses to communities throughout climate disasters reminiscent of hurricanes, storm surge, and flooding. The detailed maps the mission creates additionally will present data on each gradual and sudden modifications occurring on Earth’s land and ice surfaces.
Managed by Caltech for NASA, JPL leads the U.S. element of the NISAR venture and supplied the L-band SAR. NASA JPL additionally supplied the radar reflector antenna, the deployable growth, a high-rate communication subsystem for science knowledge, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder, and payload knowledge subsystem. NASA’s Goddard House Flight Middle in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the Close to House Community, which is able to obtain NISAR’s L-band knowledge.
A number of ISRO facilities have contributed to NISAR. The House Functions Centre is offering the mission’s S-band SAR. The U R Rao Satellite tv for pc Centre supplied the spacecraft bus. The rocket is from Vikram Sarabhai House Centre, launch providers are by Satish Dhawan House Centre, and satellite tv for pc mission operations are by the ISRO Telemetry Monitoring and Command Community. The Nationwide Distant Sensing Centre is accountable for S-band knowledge reception, operational merchandise era, and dissemination.
To study extra about NISAR, go to:
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Karen Fox / Elizabeth Vlock
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
karen.c.fox@nasa.gov / elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov
Andrew Wang / Scott Hulme
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
626-379-6874 / 818-653-9131
andrew.wang@jpl.nasa.gov / scott.d.hulme@jpl.nasa.gov