NISAR – short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar – is a high-tech satellite being jointly constructed by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization.
It will soon move from Pasadena to India’s U R Rao Satellite Centre in the city of Bengaluru. There it will be merged with a spacecraft bus in preparation for a 2024 launch from Satish Dhawan Space Center.
Members of the mission team joined reporters and Indian and U.S. space dignitaries to tour the High Bay 2 clean room, where they saw engineers and technicians putting the science instrument payload through final electrical testing.
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