NISAR Mission Animation Reel

Animation for media and public use. NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) have teamed up to create a powerful new space mission that will track our changing Earth in fine detail. This reel includes animation of the launch, deployment, and operation of NISAR – the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission. The animation shows: Launch from ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre aboard a GSLV Mk II rocket First-stage separation and second stage ignition Payload fairing separation Additional stage separations and ignitions Solar array deployment and spacecraft orientation Multi-stage boom arm and radar antenna reflector deployment Radar data collection over California, showing simulated land subsidence data Animation by Koji Kuramura and Michael Stetson Directed by Paul A. Rosen Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech