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).
Specifications
- Thrust
- 4,847 kN
- Height
- 44 m
- Diameter
- 2.8 m
- Launch mass
- 295 t
- Stages
- 4
- Launch cost
- $21M
- LEO capacity
- 3,800 kg
- GTO capacity
- 1,200 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- 1,750 kg
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
12
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
83.3%
10 of 12
Current success streak
8
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
Next: PSLV | TDS-01 — December 31, 2026
- PSLV | SCATSat-1 — Success
- PSLV | Resourcesat-2 — Success
- PSLV | Cartosat 2 & SRE 1 — Success
- PSLV | Cartosat-1 — Success
- PSLV | Resourcesat — Success