Essay satellite tv

The satellite carried a new remote sensing device called landmark sensor as its main payload. Unfortunately, the satellite was injected to a lower orbit. Hence after nine days the satellite burnt up in space on June 9, 1981 without fulfilling its mission. The third one, Rs-D2, launched by SLV in April, 1983 had a successful mission.

The one year long Satellite instructional television experiment (SITE) which commenced on 1st August 1975 and concluded on 31st July 1976, marked the beginning of a series of innovative and constructive educational television programmes for national development and for educating the Indian masses living in remote rural areas.

Major equipments used in APPLE were built indigenously. INSAT System : The Indian National Satellite (INSAT) system is a multipurpose geostationary satellite system operating for domestic telecommunication, nationwide direct satellite T.V. telecasting, meteorological observations and data collections and radio-television programme distributions.

It was the heaviest satellite i.e. 360 kg in weight and 1.2m high with 26 faces. It was powered by silicon solar cell arrays and nickel-cadmium batteries. The satellite was designed to conduct experiments in X-rays, astronomy and physics.