{"id":230392,"date":"2023-03-10T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=230392"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:14:07","slug":"isro-successfully-carries-out-controlled-re-entry-experiment-of-mt-1-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-successfully-carries-out-controlled-re-entry-experiment-of-mt-1-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO successfully carries out controlled re-entry experiment of MT-1 satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cISRO successfully carries out controlled re-entry experiment of MT-1 satellite\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>10th March 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) has successfully carried out the controlled re-entry experiment for the decommissioned Megha-Tropiques-1(MT-1) satellite.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Megha-Tropiques-1<\/b><b> satellite?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Megha-Tropiques-1 was a joint mission developed by ISRO and the French space agency, CNES, for tropical weather and climate studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The satellite was launched into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mission was initially planned to operate for three years but it was extended later as it continued to deliver key data about the climate for a decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why has ISRO brought down the Megha-Tropiques-1 satellite?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISRO has brought down the Megha-Tropiques-1 satellite as part of its commitment to the United Nations Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (UNIADC) following the end of the mission life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UN guidelines state that at its end-of-life the satellite should be deorbited, preferably through controlled re-entry to a safe impact zone or by bringing it to an orbit where the orbital lifetime is less than 25 years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cISRO successfully carries out controlled re-entry experiment of MT-1 satellite\u201d published in The Hindu on 10th March 2023 What is the News? The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) has successfully carried out the controlled re-entry experiment for the decommissioned Megha-Tropiques-1(MT-1) satellite. What is the Megha-Tropiques-1 satellite? Megha-Tropiques-1 was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-successfully-carries-out-controlled-re-entry-experiment-of-mt-1-satellite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRO successfully carries out controlled re-entry experiment of MT-1 satellite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-230392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703069767},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}