The launch will see India’s GSLV rocket, for the first time, inject a satellite into a Sun Synchronous Polar Orbit, an orbit in which the satellite will scan over the same point on Earth at the same time each day.

NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite is set to launch today aboard India's GSLV-F16 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

ISRO is launching the joint NASA-ISRO NISAR Earth observation satellite today at 5:40 PM from Sriharikota using a GSLV-F16 rocket. This first-of-its-kind hardware collaboration will provide high-resolution data to monitor natural hazards,