The mesh of the reflector has to reflect radar wavelengths without distortion, and the structure must be stable to fractions of a millimeter to maintain phase accuracy tolerances similar to those ...

The deployment of the gigantic reflector, which unfurled like a precision-made umbrella, is critical to Nisar’s mission of capturing high-resolution radar imagery of Earth.

HOUSTON—The largest radar reflector antenna ever assigned to a NASA mission has been successfully deployed, the space agency says. The joint NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Earth ...

Spanning 39 feet (12 meters), the drum-shaped antenna reflector on the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite mission from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ...

NASA is also providing the radar reflector antenna, the deployable boom, a high-rate communication subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder, and payload data subsystem.

NISAR will be able to monitor "changes as small as a centimeter in any weather, and in both darkness and light." ...

CHANTILLY, Va., Aug. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Parsons Corporation (NYSE: PSN) has been awarded a $30 million recompete contract by U.S. Army DEVCOM’s (Combat Capabilities Development Command ...

NASA is also providing the radar reflector antenna, the deployable boom, a high-rate communication subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder, and payload data subsystem.