Chennai, Feb 4 (Ians) Officials of two space agencies – Indias Isro and the NASA of the US – followed their respective traditions at the send off ceremony of NASA-isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar) – an Earth science satellite being jointly built by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).
Outside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Jpl) in Southern California and in front of a scale model of the Nisar satellite, NASA’s Nisar Project Manager Phil Barela and Isro’s Nisar Project Director C.V. Shrikant ceremonially broke fresh coconuts.
The breaking of coconuts before an important event is an auspicious tradition in India to pave the way for a smooth completion of a task.
On his part, Jpl Director Laurie Leshin, as per his organisation’s tradition, presented the Isro delegation that included Chairman S. Somanath with a jar of ‘lucky’ peanuts.
The Nisar payload on its arrival in India will be...
Outside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Jpl) in Southern California and in front of a scale model of the Nisar satellite, NASA’s Nisar Project Manager Phil Barela and Isro’s Nisar Project Director C.V. Shrikant ceremonially broke fresh coconuts.
The breaking of coconuts before an important event is an auspicious tradition in India to pave the way for a smooth completion of a task.
On his part, Jpl Director Laurie Leshin, as per his organisation’s tradition, presented the Isro delegation that included Chairman S. Somanath with a jar of ‘lucky’ peanuts.
The Nisar payload on its arrival in India will be...
- 2/4/2023
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