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3rd August 2017, 02:02 PM
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ISRO Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hi I am interested in knowing about ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri as well as the details of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar?
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3rd August 2017, 02:37 PM
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Re: ISRO Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri is furnished with the best in class offices fundamental for understanding the front line drive innovation items for the Indian space program. Once in the past, IPRC was known as LPSC, Mahendragiri and taking discernment without bounds development of the space program of our country and the corresponding extension at Mahendragiri, it was lifted as IPRC with impact from February 01, 2014. The exercises completed at IPRC, Mahendragiri are: get together, reconciliation and testing of earth storable force motors, cryogenic motors and stages for dispatch vehicles; high height testing of upper stage motors and shuttle thrusters and also testing of its sub frameworks; creation and supply of cryogenic fuels for Indian cryogenic rocket program, and so forth. Utilizing propelled radar imaging that will give a phenomenal, nitty gritty perspective of Earth, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR, satellite is intended to watch and take estimations of a portion of the planet's most perplexing procedures, including biological system unsettling influences, ice-sheet crumple, and normal dangers, for example, tremors, tidal waves, volcanoes and avalanches. NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a novel national research office that completes mechanical space and Earth science missions. JPL helped open the Space Age by building up America's initially Earth-circling science satellite, making the main fruitful interplanetary rocket, and sending automated missions to think about every one of the planets in the nearby planetary group and additionally space rocks, comets and Earth's moon. Acronym: NISAR Type: Orbiter Status: Future Launch Date: 2020 Target: Earth Information gathered from NISAR will uncover data about the advancement and province of Earth's outside, enable researchers to better comprehend our planet's procedures and evolving atmosphere, and help future asset and peril administration. The mission is an association amongst NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization. Scientific Instrument(s) - L-band (24-centimeter wavelength) Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar - S-band (12-centimeter wavelength) Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Contact: ISRO Propulsion Complex ISRO, Department of Space Mahendragiri, Tirunelveli District Tamil Nadu - 627 133 Director: Shri. S. Pandian Email: director@iprc.gov.in |