Megha-Tropiques-1: ISRO Successfully Executes Controlled Re-entry Of Satellite In Space Debris Mitigation Exercise
byKaran Kamble-Mar 8, 2023 01:22 AM +05:30 IST
Final ground traces of the Megha-Tropiques-1 satellite (Image: ISRO)
Snapshot
- The satellite re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and would have disintegrated over the Pacific Ocean, ISRO confirmed based on telemetry.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully pulled off the controlled atmospheric re-entry of its decommissioned climate research satellite Megha-Tropiques-1.
Megha-Tropiques-1 was a joint satellite mission by India and France for studying the water cycle and energy exchanges in the tropics. It was launched in October 2011 and decommissioned in April 2022 after a couple of extensions over its original mission life of three years. (Read this earlier Swarajya
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- CNES
- Space Debris Mitigation
- megha-tropiques-1 satellite
- space situational awareness
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