Overview

• Mission teams report the spacecraft and radar payload have passed preliminary health checks following the July 30 launch.
• Engineers deployed the 12-meter radar reflector on August 15 and powered on both the L-band and S-band SAR instruments.
• Orbit-raising maneuvers toward the roughly 747-kilometer sun-synchronous operational orbit began on August 26.
• Controllers expect initial science-quality radar imagery in the coming weeks, with full science operations about 90 days after launch.
• NASA supplied the L-band radar, reflector, and data systems while ISRO provided the S-band radar, spacecraft bus, and launch, with operations supported by ISTRAC and data downlink through NASA’s Near Space Network.