Bengaluru: The US area company NASA and its Indian counterpart ISRO have held discussions on potential alternatives for future cooperation in area exploration.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Laurie Leshin visited the ISRO headquarters right here and had a gathering with the Chairman of the Indian area company and Secretary of the Department of Space, S Somanath.

‘Dr. Laurie Leshin expressed happiness over the joint efforts of JPL and ISRO officials working together as a single team at ISRO’s U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) in realising ‘NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR),’ Bengaluru-headquartered ISRO mentioned.

NISAR’s readiness for launch and potential alternatives for future cooperation together with skilled alternate in technical areas and area exploration had been additionally mentioned throughout her go to on November 15, ISRO mentioned.

ISRO sources mentioned NISAR, a Low Earth Orbit observatory being collectively developed by NASA and ISRO — is anticipated to be launched from Sriharikota spaceport within the first quarter of 2024.‘NISAR will map entire globe in 12 days and provide spatially and temporally consistent data for understanding changes in Earth’s ecosystems, ice mass, vegetation biomass, sea degree rise, floor water and pure hazards together with earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides,’ in line with ISRO.