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Satellites of India

Satellites Year Work Info

Aryabhata

19th April 1975

India’s First Satellite

Bhaskar

7th June 1979

First Experimental Remote Sensing Satellite

Rohini RS-1

18th July 1980

India’s First Indigenous Satellite launched.

APPLE

19th June 1981

India’s first Communication Satellite

INSAT – 1A

10th April 1982

India’s first Operational Multipurpose Communication and Meteorology Satellite.

INSAT – 1B

30th Aug 1983

First Earth Observation Satellite.

IRS-1A

17th Mar 1988

First Operational Remote Sensing Satellite.

Kalpana -1 or Met Sat

12th Sept. 2002

First Meteorological Satellite.

EDUSAT

5th May 2005

India’s first exclusive Educational Satellite.

INSAT – 4A

21st Dec 2000

It Provides D2H Television Broadcasting Service in India.

Stusat

12th July 2010

First Indian Pico Satellite.

RISAT – 1

26th April 2012

First Indigenous all Weather Radar Imaging Satellite.

Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)

5th Nov. 2013

Also Called Mangalyaan. India’S first Inter Placatory Program.

Astrosat

28th Sept. 2015

India’s first dedicated Multi Wave length Space Observatory.

CARTOSAT 2D

15th Feb. 2017

Highest no of satellites launches by a single launch vehicle (104) by ISRO

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