Kalpana-1
Sign in to saveKalpana-1 was the first dedicated meteorological satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on 12 September 2002. The satellite is three-axis stabilized and is powered by solar panels, getting up to of power. The METSAT bus was used as the basis for the Chandrayaan lunar orbiter mission of 2008.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- Kalpana-1
- Spaceflight.image
- METSAT_Kalpana-1_deployed_view.png
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Kalpana-1 deployed
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Weather
- Spaceflight.operator
- ISRO
- Spaceflight.website
- Kalpana-1 on ISRO Web-site
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2002-043A
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- Planned: 7 years Achieved:
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
- I-1000 Bus
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- ISRO Satellite CenterSpace Applications Centre
- Spaceflight.power
- 550 watts
- Spaceflight.instruments
- VHRR
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- PSLV-C4
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- SHAR, Satish Dhawan FLP
- Spaceflight.deactivated
- September 2017
- Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
- 25 September 2002
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- communications satellite
- Named after
- Kalpana Chawla
- Country
- India
- Mass
- 1060
- Image
- METSAT Kalpana-1 deployed view.png
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2002-09-12
- orbital inclination
- 0
- periapsis
- 35807.7
- apoapsis
- 35779.0
- Commons category
- Kalpana-1
- type of orbit
- geostationary transfer orbit
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- VHRR scanning radiometer
- See also
- References
Kalpana-1 was the first dedicated meteorological satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on 12 September 2002. The satellite is three-axis stabilized and is powered by solar panels, getting up to of power. The METSAT bus was used as the basis for the Chandrayaan lunar orbiter mission of 2008.
==History== Originally known as MetSat-1, the satellite was the first launched by the PSLV-C4 into the Geostationary orbit. On February 5, 2003, it was renamed to Kalpana-1 by the Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in memory of Kalpana Chawla—an Indian born NASA astronaut who perished in the disaster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kalpana-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.