On July 24, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) rolled the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) spacecraft and its GSLV rocket out to the pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, on India's southeastern coast.

On July 30, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), in partnership with NASA, will launch the highly anticipated NISAR satellite from Sriharikota using a GSLV Mk-II rocket. Officially named the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR),

The imaging technology in Nisar will be able to provide very high-resolution data on changes as small as one centimetre in size on Earth's surface