NASA administrator lauds Chandrayaan-3 success, highlights NISAR mission collaboration with India

Noting Indias success in the Chandrayaan3 mission NASA administrator Bill Nelson said on Friday that India has done something that no other country has done and it deserve every bit of praise for the accomplishmentMy congratulations to India You have landed first around the south pole of the moon We will have a commercial lander that will land next year but India was the first Others have tried and others have failed But India was successful You deserve every bit of praise for this accomplishment Its very significant he said while speaking to reporters in MumbaiNelson also mentioned the NISAR mission stating that with the accomplishment of the four major observatories a complete 3D composite model will be set up to find out what is happening to the EarthThis is a major observatory that we are putting up with the Indian government There are four major observatories Once we get all four up along with the 25 spacecraft already in orbit we will have a complete 3D composite model of what is exactly happening to the Earth We want to preserve our homeHe added The first of these great observatories is NISAR It will observe all the surfaces of the Earth It will see any changes in the water the land and the ice That will be another set of data that will help us understand what is happening to the Earth That mission is coming in the first part of the next year The rocket is provided by the Indian Space Agency and then we have built the spacecraft together It is being prepared in Bangalore at ISRONISAR a joint Earthobserving mission between NASA and ISRO will help researchers explore how changes in Earths forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate changeNISAR is also a joint mission by NASA and ISRO and when in orbit its sophisticated radar systems will scan nearly all of Earths land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days The data it collects will help researchers understand two key functions of both ecosystem types the capture and the release of carbonThe NISAR satellite equipped with advanced radar systems will scan nearly all of Earths land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days The data collected will help researchers understand the capture and release of carbon in these ecosystemsThe NASA administrator stated that they are again going to the moon and this time they will be accompanied by their international partners and will have an international crew on the first mission with the astronauts to the moonWell there is a tremendous opportunity in the future for expanded commercial investment from India Now at NASA we have commercial partners so for example we are going back to the moon but this time we go back with our commercial partners And we go with our international partners In the first mission with the astronauts to the moon which will be a year from now it will have an international crew So commercial efforts are a big part of our space program and that will be the same here in India as well he addedOn Thursday Nelson visited the UR Rao Satellite Centre URSC in Bengaluru where the NASAISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar NISAR satellite is undergoing testing before its scheduled launch in 2024The NASA chief is on a visit to India and also had an interaction with students of Visvesvaraya Industrial amp Technological Museum VITM in Bengaluru on WednesdayThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever