Rocket
PSLV
Indian Space Research Organization · India
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was developed to allow India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites into sun-synchronous orbits, a service that was, until the advent of the PSLV in 1993, commercially available only from Russia. PSLV can also launch small size satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).
- Manufacturer
- Indian Space Research Organization
- First flight
- September 20, 1993
- Launches
- 12
- Successful
- 10
- Failed
- 2
- Success rate
- 83.3%
- Scheduled
- 2
- Height
- 44 m
- Diameter
- 2.8 m
- Liftoff mass
- 295 t
- Payload to low Earth orbit
- 3,800 kg
- Payload to geostationary transfer orbit
- 1,200 kg
- Reusable
- no