Payload
IRS-1A
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 18960
IRS-1A is a India payload satellite, launched on March 17, 1988 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- March 17, 1988 at 06:43 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- IRS-1A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 914 km
- Periapsis
- 894 km
- Inclination
- 98.85°
- Orbital period
- 103.07 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- India
- Launch mass
- 966.3 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.56 × 1.1 × 1.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1988-021A
- NORAD catalog №
- 18960
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
India- Radar cross-section
- 3.5011 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational