ISRO-NASA Joined Hands To Built India’s Own Space Station

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson expressed openness to helping India build its own space station during his visit.

The US and India are planning to send an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station by the end of the next year.

ISRO will launch the joint venture satellite, Nisar, in the first quarter of 2024 in collaboration with NASA.

The Nisar satellite, costing $1.5 billion, will use synthetic aperture radar for studying land ecosystems, solid earth deformation, and more.

NASA's Hypervelocity Impact Test (HVIT) facility is being explored by ISRO for testing Gaganyaan module protection shields.

The US is willing to collaborate with India in building a space station if India desires, anticipating a commercial space station by 2040.

ISRO has developed the S-band SAR integrated with NASA’s L-band SAR for joint testing at the U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set goals for ISRO to build an Indian space station by 2035 and land astronauts on the moon by 2040.

Discussions between NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and India's science and technology minister Jitendra Singh focused on strengthening cooperation in the space sector.

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