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>Please visit article Apple to know about the fruit apple. This article is about the satellite APPLE. For other meanings see Apple (disambiguation). APPLE (stands for Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment), was an Indian Space Research Organisation satellite, launched on June 19, 1981 by Ariane from Centre Spatial Guyanais near Kourou in French Guiana. It was India's first Geostationary communication satellite.
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