300 KG DEFUNCT INDIAN SATELLITE CRASHES INTO EARTH
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SCIENCE
By Minisma
A defunct Indian satellite, launched in 2009, has now landed in the Indian Ocean near Jakarta, ISRO said.
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It hit the Indian Ocean near Jakarta, said Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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The 300 kg RISAT-2, a surveillance satellite, was launched on April 20, 2009, using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
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The satellite with a design life of four years had initially carried 30 kg of fuel for operations in the space.
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According to ISRO, the satellite did not have any fuel when it re-entered the earth atmosphere
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studies confirmed that the pieces generated due to aero-thermal fragmentation would not have survived re-entry heating and hence no fragments would have impacted the earth.
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The re-entry of the satellite was monitored by ISRO with the Multi Object Tracking Radar (MTOR) at the Sriharikota rocket port
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As RISAT-2 re-entered within 13.5 years, it complied with all necessary international mitigation guidelines for Space Debris