Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment (APPLE), adalah satelit komunikasi eksperimental dengan transponder C-Band diluncurkan oleh Indian Space Research Organisation pada 19 Juni 1981 oleh Ariane, kendaraan peluncuran Badan Antariksa Eropa (ESA) dari Pusat Antariksa Guyana dekat Kourou di Guyana Prancis.
Referensi
- "ISRO success stories". THE HINDU. 28 April 2001. Retrieved 2013-03-17....This important opportunity was utilised to build indigenously a 672-kg state-of-the-art three-axis-stabilised (as against the spin-stabilised Aryabhata) geosynchronous communication satellite called APPLE – Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment – which was launched in June 1981.
- "Welcome To ISRO:: Satellites:: Geo-Stationary Satellite:: APPLE". Isro.org. 1981-06-19. Retrieved 2013-03-17.
