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Uncovering NISAR's upper antenna boom assembly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published: January 4, 2022

The NISAR upper antenna boom assembly is pictured on its shipping container in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

The spacecraft's radar antenna boom consists of upper and lower boom assemblies that, when integrated together and fully deployed, are approximately 9 meters (29.5 feet) in length.

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