How ISRO will launch the world's most expensive Earth-imaging satellite?
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ISRO will launch NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), touted as the world's most expensive Earth-imaging satellite, in January 2024. It is estimated to cost around $1.5 billion. On March 8, a US Air Force C-17 aircraft brought the satellite's payload to India. NISAR is the first-ever joint satellite to be built by NASA and ISRO. NISAR will be the first radar of its kind to map Earth using two microwave bandwidth regions called L-band and S-band.