Public sentiment about the NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite project is largely positive, showcasing strong enthusiasm for the collaboration and pride in scientific advancement. However, concerns about misinformation, public awareness, and pressing social issues, particularly poverty, are also noted.

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Just-Bullfrog-5414

It’s beautiful and so much potential I just heard of it yesterday and I was unsurprised that it’s a work of genius

worldwarcheese

Anxiously awaiting to see how the Ka transmitter works from orbit. Excited for sure...

ob12_99

SaraBoyer

JustAnybody5797

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EdwardHeisler

What's the output product going to look like compared to Sentinel 1?

Mars_target

I see an awkward trip to the emergency room in someone's future if they don't put a flared base on that thing.

IrishWeebster

Godspeed NISAR! It will be good to see this spacecraft get deployed at last.

jch60

Is not that the largest antenna ever launched?

Piscator629

Should it ever make it to launch...

There was a pool going at JPL for the launch date, and I went ahead and took over the bet from one of my colleagues when he left for a job at Millennium, thinking "sure, why not, that's so far away, it'll surely happen before then". That date was last summer. In the meantime I and most of the ATLO group got laid off and this satellite *still hasn't launched yet*.

dorylinus

It will probably take longer than JWST before these guys figure out how to get it to space

ThatSillySam

The forestry side of it is sick! Some of the technology can identify tree species, their DBH, then the basil area just from crown composition. Cruising will be the thing of the past pretty soon

Rhododendroff

accrama

EmotionalHighway

Incredible

India's doing some great things

BodhingJay

Aromatic-Grass-3767

I feel like President Musk will gain control of it and use it to monitor people that criticize him

TheZan87

26 terabytes of data daily bruh how much storage does it got

definitely_effective

And spy on other countries, because why not.

Dyuweh

"World's most expensive satellite."  Really??  

NISAR is $1.5 billion. The James Webb Space Telescope was $10 billion.

NotPrepared2

We’re finally approaching Star Trek level sensors.

RelationKey1648

JKKIDD231

QiwiLisolet

This project is initiated by NASA. NASA could have done this project alone but they’re collaborating with ISRO to take advantage of ISRO’s cost effective engineering, efficient satellite manufacturing, and launch expertise (ISRO has proven itself by launching Chandrayaan, Mangalyan etc).

ISRO’s share of the project cost is about USD 91 million vs NASA’s share of the project cost is whopping USD 1.1 billion.

There’s a reason It’s called NISAR and not INSAR

Also if the project was as revolutionary as you are thinking NASA would’ve done it alone to take all the credit. It’s just a side hustle for NASA but It’s a very big project for ISRO.

dj_spinn3r

Yet another SAR mission? Gee, people, maybe good in the field of reconnaissance but environmental research? This is because the backscatter is hard to interpret

Such-bmvv-such

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Yeah to extract more minerals from my planet and to make the rich the richest. What makes people think that our planet is not already scanned. This is something else.

Health monitor? Its ironic that India wants to track the health of the earth while populations in Delhi and Mumbai are literally suffocating due to the immense levels of air pollution and smog.

pickled_dream

Moist_Nothing9112

ElectrikLettuce

Ah yes nothing bad will come from this.....

Barneyseesyouu

ReserveGlass07

Jack_Claude_van_Ban

You know how much diarrhea you can see with that thing over India!!

sizam_webb

InspiringMalice

But they can’t get rid of their scam
Call centres lol

Knobcobblestone

launch satellites but 99.9% of the country has no indoor plumbing🤣

Empty_life_00

Fluffy_Comb_551

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The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite is set to launch in July 2025, aimed at monitoring Earth's land and ice surfaces with dual radar systems.

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