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RISAT-2 - Uncontrolled re-entry
November 17 , 2022
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- RISAT-2, made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere at the predicted impact point.
- It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2009.
- RISAT-2 Satellite carried 30 Kg of fuel for an initial designed life of four years.
- By economical usage of fuel RISAT-2 provided very useful payload data for 13 years.
- The pieces generated due to aero-thermal fragmentation would not have survived re-entry heating and hence no fragments would have impacted on Earth.
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