The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk. II rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre launch site in southeast India. The mission came just over two months after its EOS-09 mission failed aboard a different rocket type.
This launch was just the third ISRO orbital flight of 2025, and the second flight of the GSLV Mk. II this year after the successful NVS-02 mission on Jan. 28. The NISAR satellite launched aboard GSLV F16 from the Second Launch Pad on Wednesday, July 30, at 12:10 UTC, and the rocket took a southerly trajectory over the Bay of Bengal to place NISAR into a Sun-synchronous 98.4-degree inclination orbit.