1981-057B
The APPLE (Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment) was India's first experimental comsat, a bridge between the ATS-6 experiments and the Insat series. One of the two solar panels failed to deploy but the satellite was successfully used for communications experiments.
| Apple | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 Jun 19 | 1233 | Launch by Ariane LO3 | CSG ELA1 |
| Stage 1 sep | |||
| 1235:30 | Stage 2 TIG | ||
| 1237:25 | Fairing sep | ||
| 1238:00 | Stage 3 burn | ||
| 1247 | EOI | ||
| 1249:18 | CAT/Apple sep from H8 | ||
| 1249:37 | T+16:38 Meteosat/MTO sep from Apple | ||
| 1250:18 | T+17:08? CAT sep from Apple | ||
| 1981 Jun 20 | 635.56 200 x 35997 x 10.5 | ||
| 1981 Jun 21 | 2243:16 | AKM fired by SHAR | GEO 2E dr |
| 1981 Jun 22 | Solar panels: 1 deployed, 1 failed | ||
| 1981 Jun 22 | 1436.31 35579 x 36009 x 1.20 (Falworth) | ||
| 1981 Jun | TCM | ||
| 1981 Jun | TCM | ||
| 1981 Jun | Second panel deployed | ||
| 1981 Jul 16 | On station | GEO 102E | |
| 1981 Jul 22 | Telecom experiments start | ||
| 1981 Aug | GEO 105E | ||
| 1982? | end of regular ops | ||
| 1983 Jan 27 | 1439.42 35746 x 35956 x 0.3 GEO 47.6W+0.8W | ||
| 1983 Jun | Drifting | GEO 114E+0.3/d | |
| 1983 Sep 15 | 1439.49 35750 x 35955 x 0.9 GEO 140.1E+0.8W | ||
| 1983 Sep 20 | Decommissioned | ||
| 1988 Apr 18 | 1439.30 35751 x 35947 x 5.1 GEO 138.6E+0.8W | ||
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