The Satellite Launch Vehicle or SLV is a Small-lift launch vehicle, was a project started in the early 1970s by the Indian Space Research Organisation to develop the technology needed to launch satellites. SLV was intended to reach a height of 400 kilometres (250 mi) and carry a payload of 40 kg (88 lb).
Specifications
- Thrust
- 503 kN
- Height
- 22 m
- Diameter
- 1 m
- Launch mass
- 17 t
- Stages
- 4
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 40 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
4
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
75%
3 of 4
Current success streak
3
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
- SLV-3 | Rohini RS-D-2 — Success
- SLV-3 | Rohini RS-D-1 — Success
- SLV-3 | Rohini 1B — Success
- SLV-3 | Rohini 1A — Failure