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.

NISAR satellite launch will be held from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh today at 17:40 IST.

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,