The payload of the world’s most expensive Earth-Imaging satellite, NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), landed in India after a US Air Force’s C-17 aircraft touched down in Bengaluru from California on Wednesday. The arrival of the payload signals a key milestone in US-India relations in space collaboration. NISAR is scheduled to be launched in January next year from Sriharikota towards a near-polar orbit and will be operational for a minimum of three years. ISRO will launch NISAR, claimed to be the world’s most expensive Earth-imaging satellite, in January 2024, which costs an estimated $1.5 billion. NISAR will be the first … Continue reading The World’s Most Expensive Satellite Set to Launch in India