ISRO Going For A Controlled Re-Entry of Megha Tropiques Satellite On March 7; It Will Give Training For Gaganyaan Mission

ISRO is gearing up for a challenging experiment of controlled re-entry of a decommissioned low Earth orbiting satellite, namely Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT1), on March 7, 2023. MT1 was launched on October 12, 2011, as a joint satellite venture of ISRO and the French space agency, CNES for tropical weather and climate studies. Although the mission life of the satellite originally was to 3 years, the