The inactive climate satellite Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1) was successfully brought down by Indian and French space agencies. According to the latest telemetry, the climate satellite has re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and will fall to pieces over the Pacific Ocean, according to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

According to the Indian space agency, the final impact region is located in the deep Pacific Ocean, within the expected latitude and longitude boundaries.According to the report, the entire sequence of events was carried out from the Mission Operations Complex at ISTRAC. The satellite was launched on October 12, 2011, as part of a collaboration between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the French space agency CNES to conduct tropical weather and climate studies. According to ISRO, the satellite’s path has been gradually lowered since August 2022 through a series of 20 operations that have consumed approximately 120 kg of fuel.

The statement continued, “All operation plans were examined to ensure that there would be no post-operation close approaches with other space objects, especially with the crewed space stations like the Chinese Space Station and the International Space Station. Four 11 Newton thrusters were fired on board the satellite for roughly 20 minutes during each of the final two de-boost burns. The orbiting satellite’s final path, or closest point to the Earth, was calculated to be less than 80 km, which meant that it would eventually enter the denser layers of the atmosphere and undergo structural disintegration. No large debris fragments would survive re-entry, according to ISRO’s analysis of the re-thermal flux.