India-NASA NISAR Launch on July 30

Get ready for a big moment in space! ISRO and NASA are launching NISAR — a powerful Earth-observing satellite — on July 30 at 5:40 PM from Sriharikota.

This will be India’s first satellite with dual-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), capable of scanning the planet in all weather, day and night.

NISAR will orbit 743 km above Earth and use advanced radar systems from both agencies to capture incredibly detailed data every 12 days — even detecting changes as small as 1 cm!

What makes this mission exciting for Indians is that it will help track and predict natural disasters like earthquakes, landslides, floods, and storms — potentially saving lives and resources.

It will also monitor soil moisture, forest changes, ice movement, and coastline shifts. Built with key parts from ISRO centres across India and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in the US, this ₹1 lakh crore collaboration is a major leap for global science — and for India’s role in it.