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Asteriods are a class of small Solar System bodies that orbit the Sun. The large majority orbit in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They are generally made of carbon-rich, stony, or metallic materials. INSAT-4C was India's most advanced communications satellite and heaviest launched from India. It provided boosts to television and news services. Kalpana-1 was India's first dedicated meteorological satellite, launched using PSLV into geostationary orbit in 2002. Aryabhatta was India's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1975 to gain experience in satellite operations.

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ASTEROIDS

Asteriods are a class of small Solar System bodies that orbit the Sun. The large majority orbit in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They are generally made of carbon-rich, stony, or metallic materials. INSAT-4C was India's most advanced communications satellite and heaviest launched from India. It provided boosts to television and news services. Kalpana-1 was India's first dedicated meteorological satellite, launched using PSLV into geostationary orbit in 2002. Aryabhatta was India's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1975 to gain experience in satellite operations.

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ASTEROIDS

are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. There are millions of
asteroids, and like most other small Solar System bodies the asteroids are not grown large
enough to form planets.[3] The large majority of known asteroids orbit in the main
asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. These are generally identified with
carbon-rich, stony, and metallic compositions respectively.

INSAT-4C was to be India's most advanced communications satellite. The heaviest


satellite to be launched from the Indian soil, INSAT-4C weighed 2168 kg. The satellite
would have given a boost to Direct-to-Home television services, video picture
transmission and digital satellite news gathering,.India launched the INSAT 4C on 10
July 2006 from Sriharikota at 5:38pm.

Kalpana-1 is the first dedicated meteorological satellite launched by ISRO using


PSLV on 2002-09-12. This was the first satellite launched by the PSLV into the
Geostationary orbit. The satellite was originally known as MetSat-1. On February 5, 2003
it was renamed to Kalpana-1

Aryabhatta was India's first satellite, named after the great Indian astronomer of the
same name. It was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975 from Kapustin Yar
using a Cosmos-3M launch vehicle. It was built by the Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO) to gain experience in building and operating a satellite in space

Apple India's first GEO communications satellite, APPLE (Ariane Passenger Payload
Experiment), was launched on the third test flight of the Ariane launch vehicle in
June, 1981. The spacecraft bus was cylindrical with a diameter of 1.2 m and a height
of 1.2 m.

The Bhaskara-I and II Satellites were two satellites built by the Indian Space Research
Organisation that formed India's first low orbit Earth Observation Satellite. They
collected data on telemetry, oceanography and hydrology.

Rohini is the name given to a series of satellites launched by the ISRO. The Rohini series
consisted of four satellites, all of which were launched by the Indian SLV and three of
which made it successfully to orbit.

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