Mark Carreau
August 18, 2025

The NISAR satellite. 

 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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 science venture with the Indian Space Research Organization is to radar scan nearly all of the Earth’s land…

Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America’s space program through news reporting.

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