AHMEDABAD: Former ISRO chairman S Somanath has highlighted the cost-effectiveness of India’s space programmes and noted that for the same satellite and share of work, the country will incur five-time less expenditure compared to the US for an upcoming mission.
He was referring to the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission.
The joint National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) project will map the entire globe and provide data for understanding changes in Earth’s ecosystems, ice mass, vegetation biomass, sea level rise, ground water and natural hazards.
Source: PTI News
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