Space and Astronomy Atlas

How The Universe Works
Launch Vehicles

PSLV

India

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

India's workhorse launch vehicle and one of the most reliable rockets in the world, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle has launched India's Earth-observation and navigation satellites, the Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission, and, in a single 2017 flight, a record-setting 104 satellites at once.

Facts
Vehicle Class
Medium-lift expendable launch vehicle 1
Manufacturer
Indian Space Research Organisation 1
First Flight Date
1993-09-20 1
Date of its first, unsuccessful flight; its first fully successful flight followed in October 1994.
Status
Operational, India's most-flown launch vehicle with a long record of reliability. 1
Cross-Tradition Connections

Operated By

Sources
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.