印度第一颗多用途同步卫星——印度卫星IA,一九八二年四月十日由美国航宇局代为发射,同年九月四日已失去控制,停止了工作。印度卫星IA是一颗兼有国内通信、电视广播、气象观测以及收集和中继气象数据多种功能的卫星,卫星由美国福特宇航和通信公司制造,设计寿命为七年。印度政府原打算通过该卫星改变印度国内通信、 India’s first multipurpose geostationary satellite, the Indian satellite IA, was launched by the NASA on April 10, 1982 and was out of control on September 4 of the same year and stopped its work. The Indian Satellite IA is a satellite that combines multiple functions of domestic communications, television broadcasting, meteorological observations and the collection and relay of meteorological data. The satellite is manufactured by Ford Aerospace and Communications of the United States and has a design life of seven years. The Indian government originally intended to change India’s domestic communications through the satellite,