- Aryabhata is India's first indigenous satellite, It was completely designed and fabricated by India and launched by Soviet Kosmos-3M rocket.
- Aryabhata was launched with the assistance of the Soviet Union on 19th April 1975 from Kapustin Yar.
- The satellite is named after the 5th century CE mathematician and astronomer Aryabhatta.
- Aryabhata was built to conduct experiments in X-ray astronomy, aeronomics and solar physics.
- Although its life was fixed for six month but power failure halted experiment after 4 days in orbit.
Achievements:
- First Made in India satellite is launched in space.
- Aryabhata made observations on an X-ray source possible and helped to establish basic infrastructure for building and testing satellites.
- It also helped India to generate the basic manpower skill for satellite building.
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