Payload
BHASKARA 1
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BHASKARA 1 is a India payload satellite, launched on June 7, 1979 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 7, 1979 at 10:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Bhaskara 1
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 146 km
- Periapsis
- 140 km
- Inclination
- 50.63°
- Orbital period
- 87.35 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- India
- Launch mass
- 440.04 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-051A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11392
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
India- Radar cross-section
- 3.6228 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 17, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 17, 1989
- Time in service
- 9.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed