ISRO Missions: A look at what's up and coming from India's space research agency

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relaunched the rocket after 45 minutes. While the reason for the change in timing was not known immediately as per PTI news agency it might be due to rainfall and cloudy weather conditions. Track LIVE updates of the Gaganyaan Mission here Amidst the on-going mission, let's take a look at what else the space research agency has planned.

NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) observatoryis being jointly developed by NASA and ISRO, as per the agency's website. NISAR will map the entire globe in 12 days and provide spatially and temporally consistent data for understanding changes in Earth’s ecosystems, ice mass, vegetation biomass, sea level rise, ground water and natural hazards including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides, it added. The mission will carry L and S dual band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which operates with Sweep SAR technique to achieve large swath with high resolution data.

The SAR payloads mounted on Integrated Radar Instrument Structure (IRIS) and the spacecraft bus are together called an observatory. Jet Propulsion Laboratories and ISRO are realizing the observatory which shall not only meet the respective national needs but also will feed the science community with data encouraging studies related to surface deformation measurements through repeat-pass InSAR technique, the website added. This flagship partnership would have major contributions from both agencies.