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.

The satellite will be placed in orbit at an altitude of 740 kilometres and is equipped with advanced radar imaging technology. It has the capability to capture images of Earth throughout the day and night,

Wendy Edelstein, NISAR's Deputy Project Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), asserted, "NISAR is a 50-50 partnership between NASA and ISRO".