1981: Indische Weltraumbehörde und ISRO-Wissenschaftler transportieren Indiens ersten APPLE-Kommunikationssatelliten auf dem Bullock Cart. Der Einsatz eines Ochsenkarrens diente nicht dem allgemeinen Transport, sondern der Bereitstellung einer nichtmagnetischen Umgebung für die Durchführung wesentlicher Antennencharakterisierungstests auf freiem Feld

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The launch was only half the story. After APPLE reached geostationary orbit, one of its two solar panels failed to deploy. Even so, the roughly 670 kg spacecraft ran for about 27 months as a working testbed, relaying TV programmes and radio traffic through its C-band transponder. It was India’s first three-axis-stabilised geostationary satellite, parked near 102 degrees East. Per ISRO’s own history, the famous bullock-cart antenna test fixed an impedance-matching problem in about five hours, for a cart-hire cost of 150 rupees. Not bad for hardware built largely in industrial sheds in roughly two years.