Payload
MEGHA-TROPIQUES
DecayedPayloadLEO
MEGHA-TROPIQUES is a Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)/Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) payload satellite, launched on October 12, 2011 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 12, 2011 at 05:31 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan / Sriharikota, India
- Launched by
- PSLV-CA →
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 381 km
- Periapsis
- 253 km
- Inclination
- 19.96°
- Orbital period
- 90.86 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)/Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
- Manufacturer
- Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 1,000 kg
- Design lifetime
- 5 years
- Detailed purpose
- Earth Science
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-058A
- NORAD catalog №
- 37838
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
India- Radar cross-section
- 4.8139 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 7, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 7, 2023
- Time in service
- 11.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed