The NASA administrator said India deserves all the credit for this achievement.
Mumbai:
Commenting on India’s success in the Chandrayaan-3 mission, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday said India has accomplished what no other country has done and the achievement is commendable in every respect.
“Congratulations to India. You are the first to land around the South Pole of the Moon. A commercial lander is scheduled to land next year, but India was the first. Others have tried, but others have tried. Man has failed, but India has succeeded.” This achievement is commendable in every respect. This is very significant,” he told reporters in Mumbai.
Nelson also mentioned the NISAR mission, saying the completion of the four major observatories will create a complete 3D composite model to understand what is happening to Earth.
“This is a major observatory that we are setting up in collaboration with the Indian government. There are four major observatories. Once all four are completed, along with the 25 spacecraft already in orbit; You’ll have a complete 3D composite model that shows you exactly what’s happening to Earth. We want to protect our homeland. ”
He further added, “The first of these great observatories is NISAR. It looks at all the surfaces of the Earth. It looks at all the changes in water, land and ice. It’s another piece of data that will help us. It will be a set,” he added. Understand what’s happening to Earth… That mission is scheduled for the first half of next year. The rocket was provided by the Indian Space Agency and then we built the spacecraft together… It is being prepared in Bangalore at Isro. ”
NISAR, a joint NASA and ISRO Earth observation mission, will help researchers investigate how changes in Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change. will help you.
NISAR is also a joint mission between NASA and ISRO, and while in orbit, its advanced radar system will scan nearly all of Earth’s land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days. The data collected will help researchers understand two important functions of both ecosystem types: carbon capture and release.
Equipped with advanced radar systems, NISAR satellites scan nearly all of Earth’s land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days. The data collected will help researchers understand carbon capture and release in these ecosystems.
NASA administrators say they plan to go to the moon again, this time with international partners, and that they plan to have an international crew accompany the astronauts on their first mission to the moon. Stated.
“Well, in the future there is a huge opportunity to increase commercial investment from India. We currently have commercial partners at NASA, so for example we will go back to the moon, but this time we will go back with a commercial partner.” “And we are working with international partners. The first mission by astronauts to the moon, scheduled for a year from now, will involve an international crew. So commercial efforts is a big part of our space program and it will continue to be the same here in India,” he added.
On Thursday, Nelson visited the UR Rao Satellite Center (URSC) in Bangalore. There, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite is undergoing tests ahead of its scheduled launch in 2024.
The NASA chief is on a visit to India and also interacted with students from Visvesvaraya Museum of Industrial Technology (VITM) in Bangalore on Wednesday.
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