1 00:00:08,110 --> 00:00:02,490 foreign 2 00:00:12,169 --> 00:00:08,120 [Music] 3 00:00:14,390 --> 00:00:12,179 Voyage from JPL to Indian space research 4 00:00:15,470 --> 00:00:14,400 organization in Bangalore India that 5 00:00:17,390 --> 00:00:15,480 means that we're going to have to suit 6 00:00:18,830 --> 00:00:17,400 up and go on to the clean room floor 7 00:00:20,510 --> 00:00:18,840 where my team and I have been working 8 00:00:24,110 --> 00:00:20,520 for the past three years to get this 9 00:00:34,209 --> 00:00:24,120 thing built come on let's go 10 00:00:38,270 --> 00:00:36,229 shouldn't be too surprising what we're 11 00:00:40,910 --> 00:00:38,280 doing we're getting into the airlock 12 00:00:42,290 --> 00:00:40,920 then we're going into high Bay one this 13 00:00:46,450 --> 00:00:42,300 is the direction that we're going to be 14 00:00:49,549 --> 00:00:46,460 in when we lift it in the container 15 00:00:51,830 --> 00:00:49,559 okay the whole thing is a Precision 16 00:00:54,290 --> 00:00:51,840 instrument later on we are going to have 17 00:00:57,350 --> 00:00:54,300 to assemble this thing basically pick up 18 00:01:00,650 --> 00:00:57,360 a two-ton load and put it together with 19 00:01:06,770 --> 00:01:04,189 so what is nysar it is the NASA ISRO 20 00:01:08,450 --> 00:01:06,780 synthetic aperture radar this is the 21 00:01:09,950 --> 00:01:08,460 radar payload in the engineering panel 22 00:01:12,170 --> 00:01:09,960 so it's effectively the heart and brains 23 00:01:14,030 --> 00:01:12,180 of the mission nysar will use two 24 00:01:15,410 --> 00:01:14,040 powerful Radars that can detect very 25 00:01:17,570 --> 00:01:15,420 small changes in the Earth's surface 26 00:01:19,670 --> 00:01:17,580 this allows the mission to observe a 27 00:01:21,410 --> 00:01:19,680 wide range of Earth processes from the 28 00:01:22,670 --> 00:01:21,420 flow rates of glaciers and ice sheets to 29 00:01:24,170 --> 00:01:22,680 the Dynamics of earthquakes and 30 00:01:26,510 --> 00:01:24,180 volcanoes 31 00:01:27,950 --> 00:01:26,520 along with our Indian colleagues we've 32 00:01:30,350 --> 00:01:27,960 been building nysar here in this 33 00:01:32,149 --> 00:01:30,360 facility for the last three years and it 34 00:01:35,510 --> 00:01:32,159 took a whole crew so 35 00:01:37,609 --> 00:01:35,520 they're not flying to Bangalore 36 00:01:39,469 --> 00:01:37,619 Ator crew from the mechanical team 37 00:01:40,789 --> 00:01:39,479 that's going it takes an army to get us 38 00:01:42,649 --> 00:01:40,799 there 39 00:01:45,170 --> 00:01:42,659 when I first came under the project this 40 00:01:47,749 --> 00:01:45,180 was just a shell of a payload we had the 41 00:01:49,969 --> 00:01:47,759 aluminum titanium structure with 42 00:01:51,830 --> 00:01:49,979 basically nothing in it and then they've 43 00:01:53,929 --> 00:01:51,840 been popular with electronics and with 44 00:01:56,990 --> 00:01:53,939 the radar payload we brought in a 45 00:02:00,590 --> 00:01:57,000 instrument from India the SR so that's 46 00:02:03,410 --> 00:02:00,600 the s-band radar to our elsar our l-band 47 00:02:05,270 --> 00:02:03,420 radar since then we've been testing it 48 00:02:07,249 --> 00:02:05,280 and today we're getting ready to put it 49 00:02:08,270 --> 00:02:07,259 in the shipping container to send it on 50 00:02:11,809 --> 00:02:08,280 to India 51 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:11,819 [Music] 52 00:02:18,770 --> 00:02:12,730 tight fit 53 00:02:20,510 --> 00:02:18,780 [Music] 54 00:02:22,490 --> 00:02:20,520 so we're going to be working over the 55 00:02:24,770 --> 00:02:22,500 next year with our Indian Partners to do 56 00:02:27,410 --> 00:02:24,780 the final stages of assembly and test 57 00:02:29,089 --> 00:02:27,420 thank you for joining us today uh it's 58 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:29,099 been a pleasure being your guide and I 59 00:02:34,670 --> 00:02:31,650 hope to see you when we launch next year