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Antarctica Ice
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October 9, 2019
Antarctica Ice
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NISAR's flight antenna system undergoes thermal vacuum testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Engineers and technicians inspecting NISAR's upper antenna boom assembly after deployment checks at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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This view shows NISAR’s flight antenna system before chamber door was closed, as it underwent thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Thermal vacuum test...
NISAR's flight antenna system undergoes thermal vacuum testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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This artist's rendering shows a fully-deployed NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite.
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NISAR's upper antenna boom assembly being prepared for spacecraft integration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
This artist's rendering shows a fully-deployed NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite.
Artist Rendering of NISAR
NISAR will measure Earth’s changing ecosystems, dynamic surfaces, and ice masses providing information about biomass, natural hazards, sea level rise, and groundwater, and will support a host of ot...
Artist Rendering of NISAR
This view shows NISAR’s flight antenna system before the chamber door was closed, as it underwent thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The antenna sys...
NISAR's flight antenna system undergoes thermal vacuum testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Artist Rendering of NISAR
Members of the integration and test team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) pose with NISAR’s S-synthetic aperture radar (S-SAR) instrument in a...
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