Payload
BIROS
DecayedPayloadLEO
BIROS is a German Aerospace Center (DLR) payload satellite, launched on June 22, 2016 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 22, 2016 at 03:55 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan / Sriharikota, India
- Launched by
- PSLV XL →
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Mission
- Cartosat 2C & 19 small satellites
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 139 km
- Periapsis
- 127 km
- Inclination
- 97.05°
- Orbital period
- 87.15 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Manufacturer
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 130 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Optical Imaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2016-040F
- NORAD catalog №
- 41604
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Radar cross-section
- 0.6185 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 22, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 22, 2026
- Time in service
- 9.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed