India will destroy MT1 satellite: It launched for UNIADC guidelines, Weather Study

India will destroy MT1 satellite: It launched for UNIADC guidelines, Weather Study

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 08:21 PM (IST)
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India will destroy MT1 satellite: It launched for UNIADC guidelines, Weather Study

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is about to destroy the satellite Megha-Tropics-1 (MT1) in the Pacific Ocean between 4: 30-7:30 pm on Tuesday evening. Preparations were being done for this since August. This is happening to follow the guidelines of the United Nations Space Debriss Agency (UNIADC).
Let us know that this satellite was launched by ISRO on 12 October 2011 with the French Space Agency CNES to study Tropical Weather and Climate. Although it was planned to be sent to space for 3 years, by 2021, it was giving important data about the climate, so its time limit was bigger.
ISRO was committed to keeping in space for 10 years with UNIADC. Under the UNIADC guideline, any satellite has to be removed from orbit after its life is over. If the satellite is not demolished or destroyed, the option is to leave it in its orbit so that it ends on its own.
The satellite will be dropped somewhere between five degrees South to 14 degrees South Latitude in the Pacific Ocean and 119 degrees to 100 ° West.
MT1 weighs about 1000 kg. Usually, any large piece of the satellite is unlikely to avoid arothemal heating during re-entry. Deorbiting is done at a very low height in controlled re-entry to ensure impact within the targeted safe zone. But MT1 was not made according to returning. Therefore, it is being dropped so that there is no accident.
It was circling 20 degrees angles at a height of about 874 km from the earth. It has about 125 kg of fuel left. Which is enough to bring it back to Earth. It will be dropped in a place where no one lives. Hence a place has been chosen in the Pacific Ocean.
In a low orbit sense, targeting the satellite is not an easy task. Because in this lower class, Velocity is 27 thousand kilometres per hour. Because of this, the satellite present in 'low orbit' also moves fast. In this sense, killing a 'low orbit' satellite in space in just three minutes is considered to be the biggest achievement for India. Because first America, Russia and China have done this.
India has the power to kill a satellite. Apart from India, only America, Russia and China can do this. Let us know that India started working on it in the year 2012.

Muskan Kumawat Journalist & Writer