KALPANA-1 (METSAT 1)
NORAD 27525 · Payload · In orbit since 2002
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2002-09-12 · Sriharikota, India
- Country / operator
- IND (India)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 1,060 kg
- Size
- 2 × 2 m · 5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,309 × 36,366 km
- Inclination
- 13.1°
- Period
- 1464.0 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0007
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.