Payload
BIRD 2
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BIRD 2 is a Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration payload satellite, launched on October 22, 2001 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 22, 2001 at 04:53 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan / Sriharikota, India
- Launched by
- PSLV →
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Mission
- TES
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 168 km
- Periapsis
- 155 km
- Inclination
- 97.77°
- Orbital period
- 87.72 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration
- Manufacturer
- Deutsches Zentrum fr Luft- und Raumfahrt
- Users
- Government/Civil
- Launch mass
- 92 kg
- Dry mass
- 77 kg
- Power
- 120 W
- Design lifetime
- 1.5 years
- Detailed purpose
- Optical Imaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2001-049C
- NORAD catalog №
- 26959
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Radar cross-section
- 0.4219 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 11, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 11, 2023
- Time in service
- 22.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed