Coba ceritain soal Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment

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.

"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.