Payload
ROHINI 2
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ROHINI 2 is a India payload satellite, launched on May 31, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 31, 1981 at 03:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan / Sriharikota, India
- Launched by
- SLV-3 →
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Mission
- Rohini RS-D-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 197 km
- Periapsis
- 143 km
- Inclination
- 46.25°
- Orbital period
- 87.89 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- India
- Launch mass
- 37.66 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-051A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12491
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
India- Radar cross-section
- 1 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 8, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 8, 1981
- Time in service
- 8 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed