India's Satellites Have Always Served Its Villages

Credit: ISRO
Spacecraft engineers in India are proud of an old photo that shows their first geostationary communications satellite loaded on a bullock cart. Later launched on an Ariane rocket, the Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment (Apple) satellite was built to help bring the benefits of a space infrastructure...

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