Payload
TES
DecayedPayloadLEO
TES is a India payload satellite, launched on October 22, 2001 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 22, 2001 at 04:53 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan / Sriharikota, India
- Launched by
- PSLV →
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Mission
- TES
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 149 km
- Periapsis
- 139 km
- Inclination
- 97.82°
- Orbital period
- 87.37 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- India
- Launch mass
- 1,108 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2001-049A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26957
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
India- Radar cross-section
- 3.2203 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 25, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 25, 2025
- Time in service
- 24.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed