PSLV-CA

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Specifications

Status: active
Height: 44 m
Diameter: 2.8 m
Mass: 230,000 kg
Stages: 4
Thrust: 4,847 kN
Payload to LEO: 3,800 kg
Payload to GTO: 1,200 kg
First flight: 2007-04-23
Total launches: 18
Success / Fail: 18 / 0

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed and operated by 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, only commercially available from Russia. PSLV can also launch small size satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).

Propulsion

Second stage

Vikas725 kN

UDMH / N2O4 · gas-generator

ISROIsp 293s (vac)since 1992PS2

Payloads it launched

60 loaded