Payload
TECSAR
DecayedPayloadLEO
TECSAR is a Defense Ministry payload satellite, launched on January 21, 2008 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 21, 2008 at 03:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan / Sriharikota, India
- Launched by
- PSLV-CA →
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Mission
- TECSAR 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 504 km
- Periapsis
- 397 km
- Inclination
- 41°
- Orbital period
- 93.6 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Defense Ministry
- Manufacturer
- Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 300 kg
- Dry mass
- 260 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Radar Imaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2008-002A
- NORAD catalog №
- 32476
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Israel- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 3, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 3, 2024
- Time in service
- 16.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed