NISAR

2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science

NISAR

Joint radar mission monitoring land, ice, hazards and ecosystems.

Era 6 of 6 · full record in the catalog

Launch
30 Jul 2025
Lead / partner
NASA / ISRO
Target
Earth orbit
Category
Earth science
Status
Operational
Vehicle
GSLV F16
Mass
unknown
Orbit / trajectory
Geocentric orbit
Duration
Planned: 5 years Duration:

Why it happened

NISAR flew during 2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science, as part of NASA / ISRO's work toward earth orbit. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.

The mission

The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Joint radar mission monitoring land, ice, hazards and ecosystems.

Results

Joint radar mission monitoring land, ice, hazards and ecosystems.

Related missions

NISAR PUNCH — same_target PUNCH SPHEREx — same_target SPHEREx PACE — same_target PACE XPoSat — same_target XPoSat

PUNCH

Operational

United States · 2025

SPHEREx

Operational

United States · 2025

PACE

Operational

United States · 2024

Sources & image credits

  • Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-23)
  • Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
  • Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog