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Astro Aerospace Completes Review Of Radar Antenna Reflector For Future NASA-ISRO Satellite

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, February 2nd, 2018

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Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] Astro Aerospace successfully completed a critical design review of its AstroMesh radar antenna reflector for use on a future satellite project between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Northrop Grumman said on Jan. 29.Astro Aerospace will now begin the build phase of its radar antenna reflector for the joint NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite project, which is scheduled to launch in 2021.The NISAR satellite will be the first radar imaging…

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