Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Thursday extended heartfelt congratulations to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on the successful launch of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite.

ISRO Chairman V Narayanan confirmed the successful launch of the NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite aboard GSLV F16 into a precise Sun-Synchronous Polar Orbit (SSPO). The Earth observation satellite, a joint collaboration between ISRO and NASA,

ISRO launched on Wednesday a $1.5 billion, first-of-its-kind radar imaging satellite built in collaboration with NASA, deploying it to help enhance global monitoring of climate change and natural disasters.