Launch Vehicle
SLV-3
retired
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Specifications
- Status
- retired
- Height
- 22 m
- Diameter
- 1 m
- Mass
- 17,000 kg
- Stages
- 4
- Thrust
- 503 kN
- Payload to LEO
- 40 kg
- First flight
- 1979-08-10
- Total launches
- 4
- Success / Fail
- 3 / 1
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).
Payloads it launched
3 loaded