Ariabhata ( Hindi आर्यभट्ट ) is the first Indian artificial Earth satellite [3] . It was launched in the Soviet Union on April 19, 1975 by a Cosmos-3M launch vehicle from the Kapustin Yar Cosmodrome. The satellite was named after the great Indian astronomer Ariabhata [4] . In Russian-language Soviet documents, the satellite was called Ariabata, for example, in the book of Vladimir Gubarev [5] .
| Ariabhata | |
|---|---|
| hindi आर्यभट्ट | |
 | |
| Customer | Indian Space Research Organization |
| Manufacturer |  India |
| Operator | |
| Tasks | astrophysics |
| Satellite | Of the earth |
| Launch pad |  Kapustin Yar |
| Launch vehicle | Cosmos-3M |
| Launch | April 19, 1975, 7:30 UTC [1] |
| Descent from orbit | February 11, 1992 |
| NSSDC ID | 1975-033A |
| SCN | 07752 |
| Weight | |
| Elements of the orbit | |
| Orbit type | geocentric |
| Mood | 50.6 degrees |
| Circulation period | 96.46 minutes |
| Apocenter | 568 km |
| Pericenter | 611 km |
The satellite was built at the Indian Space Research Organization to gain experience in the creation and operation of spacecraft. With its help, it was supposed to conduct experiments in x-ray astronomy and solar physics and to study the upper atmosphere. The spacecraft was made in the form of a 26-sided polyhedron with a diameter of 1.4 meters. All sides (except the upper and lower) were covered with solar cells.
On the fourth day of the flight, a power failure stopped the experiments; on the fifth day, communication with the satellite was lost. The satellite left orbit and burned out in the atmosphere on February 11, 1992.
Notes
- ↑ McDowell, Jonathan Launch Log . Jonathan's Space Page . Date of treatment January 22, 2014.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20091027104057/http://geocities.com/hari_ghk/arya.htm
- ↑ "Aryabhata" in The New Encyclopaedia Britannica . Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. , 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 611.
- ↑ Aryabhata - The first indigenously built satellite .
- ↑ Ariabata .