I just hope it is full 50-50 partnership and US is not able to stop any information sharing with India.
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Everyday I’m amazed how low these editors can stoop. The article reads like a hate speech full of provocative framing. Guess nobody cares about objective reporting these days.
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You are right. Removed it…I just got directed from google to the article when I want to understand the cost difference. So didnt read full other then the part where she talks about NASA cost and ISRO cost.
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Ideally, partnering with NASA should take care of the funding issues that ISRO faces. ISRO is very good at being efficient at a cheap cost-to-government. I am excited to see what kind of capabilities can get unlocked if those constraints are removed.
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Firstly, Welcome to TE! this is your first post here so seems you like talking science.
Enjoy your stay.
Coming to the reply.
Don’t this NASA is that generous to allow India to have access to most expensive Satellite with sophisticated capabilities without its own share of investing of $1.5 billion.
Basically Indians are able to keep this cheap is….NASA is developing L Band Radar here while India is building the S Band Radar plus India is launching it.
The article I removed earlier because of unnecessary hate did cover some interesting points like NASA has some parts purchased from Private companies while India is able to keep cost down because ISRO built them in-house on top. NASA pays a lot to its scientist compared to India and the whole travelling cost of the Scientist teams of NASA and ISRO to each others facility also is makes lot of difference. As Indian scientist were staying in $100 hotel rooms shared basis while NASA scientist working in India were staying in $500 hotel rooms and these project is years in developing.
As for capabilities. This is very advanced satellite able to measure ground water to Ice surface changes down to centimetres and even work in dark parts of the Earth unlike previous such satellite which requires Sun Light to operate and take measurements.
You can read and check more on this…
Live launch
I avoid reading most Indian media whenever I can. LLMs can write better articles than these folks. Only few media outlets do any real reporting. Not only that, all the big media houses lack the decency to even cite the source properly or to use hyperlinks.
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The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite is scheduled to be launched on July 30, 2025. Following a 90-day commissioning period, the mission is planned to operate for a minimum of three years to satisfy NASA’s requirements. ISRO, however, requires five years of operations with the S-band radar, according to the NASA-ISRO SAR Mission (NISAR) website.
Only 3 years and 5 years operation for a $1.5 billion satellite..
what happens after? shot down?
btw each day it will send 80 Terabyte data …
Yes. The satellites are decommissioned.
But are they just disconnected and left into the orbit or shot down into ocean?
Normally they are left to decay in the orbit and gravity brings them down.
Usually the heat of reentry causes them to burn up completely as they don’t have heat shields.
If a satellite may survive the heat, then the altitude is lowered in a way that the satellite drops into the ocean.
Though, this is just a rudimentary level understanding.
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After the satellites are decommissioned they are either left there in space or brought down into the ocean.
If anyone wants to see, all the satellites that we have placed into our orbit till now in 3D, look here.
Stuff in Space | stuffin.space
Zoom in, Zoom out.
Almost feels like garbage.
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And this garbage is why I can read your message and post this reply via TE. Imagine how many satellites were involved just to make this happen.
Internet is mostly undersea cable, right?
Post GSM, aren’t most of the connections tower radio and cable based?
Satellite has very little role in internet, except for satellite internet.
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Though, they do have a huge role in terms of mineral discovery through resource sat for critical minerals extraction and processing (the chips and batteries), supply chain management through navigation sat for creation of network goods (the smartphone), infrastructure development through observation sat, etc. today’s complex economy is possible because of satellites.
But internet itself is mostly cables these days.
True, also on every swiggy, zomato, blinkit order a satellite is involved in one form or another.
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i don’t get wtf satellites gotta do with being able to read shit on TE or browse the web in the present day 
Probably not preset, In future maybe with satellite internet. 
Although I have read GPS time being very precise and used for synchronization by the NTP, network time protocol.
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That’s a great point, forgot about that.