Aryabhata satellite
Satélite Aryabhata
- Date
- 1975 · confidence high
- Place
- Peenya, Bangalore (Bengaluru), Karnataka, India
- Credited to
- ISRO (Udupi Ramachandra Rao)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
First satellite designed and built in India, launched on 19 April 1975 by a Soviet rocket from Kapustin Yar to study X-rays, solar physics and the ionosphere. It launched the Indian space industry.
What it led to
- ISRO Satellite Centre
- Indian communications and remote-sensing satellites