NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)

GSLV-F16 launched NISAR, the roughly $1.5 billion NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar observatory, into a 747 km sun-synchronous orbit on the GSLV's first mission to SSO; NISAR's dual L-band and S-band radar will map nearly all of Earth's land and ice every 12 days.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

2.3 T

Flight

12th

of 13 GSLV Mk. II flights

Date and time

30 July 2025, 12:10 UTC

Rocket

GSLV Mk. II

Builder

ISRO

Launch site

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2025-163

Launches in 2025

170th of 329

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