Indian space research organization
(Launch Vehicle Programs)
1. SLV(Satellite Launch Vehicle) series
- Launcher- SLV, SLV-3
- Propellent - 3 stage solid
- Payload capacity - 40kg
- Launch year - first 1979, last 1983(success 2)
- Propellent - 5 stage solid
- Payload capacity- 150kg
- Launch year- first 1987, last 1994(total 4, successful 2)
- Size
Height - 144 meters, Dia. - 2.8 meters
Propellent- 1st stage solid(HTPB), 2nd stage liquid(UDMH), 3rd stage solid(HTP), 4th stage liquid (MMH and MON)
- Payload to
LEO - 3.8 tonnes, SSO - 1.75 tonnes, Sub-GTO - 1.45 tonnes, GTO - 12 tonnes
PSLV-G
- Mass- 295 tonnes
- Launches - total 12, successful 10
- First flight - 20 sep. 1993
- Mass- 230 tonnes
- Launches - Total 11, successful 11
- First Flight - 23 April 2007
- Mass- 320 tonnes
- Launches- Total 18, Successful 17
- First flight- 22 October 2008
PSLV C37 was launched on 15 February 2017 from Satish Dhawan Space Center, shriharikota(SHAR), Carrying a payload of 104 Satellites from 6 countries around the world (Israel, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Switzerland, UAE and UAS).
PSLV C34 was launched on 22 June 2016 and successfully deployed 20 satellites in sun synchronous orbit.
PSLV C29, on 16 December 2015 deployed six satellites (TeLIOS-1, Kent ridge- 1, VELOX C-1, VELOX II, Galassia, and athenoxat-1).
PSLV C30 Successfully launched India's first Space observatory on 28 September 2015.
PSLV C25, The Mars orbiter mission(MOM), Informally called mangalyan is a mass orbiter that was successfully injected into Earth's orbit on 5 November 2013 and into mars orbit on 24 September 2014 from SHAR.
PSLV C22 successfully launched IRNSS-1A on 1st July 2013.
PSLV C21 successfully launched mRESINS(mini Redundant Strapdown Inertial Navigation System). It was 100th mission of ISRO.
PSLV C11(XL series) successfully launched Chandrayan-1 on 22 October 2008 from SDSC.
GSLV(Geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle)
Purpose
To inject INSAT type satellites into geostationary orbits and make India less dependable on foreign rockets.
Size
Height - 49.13 meters, Dia. - 2.8 meters, Mass - 414.75 tonnes
Propellent - 1st stage solid (HTPB), 2nd stage liquid (UDMH), 3rd stage cryogenic(LOX/LH2).
PSLV Mk I
Payload to
LEO - 5 tonnes, GTO - 2.5 tonnes
Lunches - Total 6, successful 2, partially successful 2
1st and last launch - 18 April 2014 and 25 December 2010
Cryogenic engine - bought from Russia
GSLV Mk II
Payload to
LEO - 5 tonnes, GTO - 2.5 tonnes
Launches - Total 5, successful 4
1st and last launch - 15 April 2010 and 5 may 2017
GSLV D5 successfully launched G-SAT 14 into intended orbit on 5 June 2014 with the help of indigenous cryogenic engine C 7.5.
GSLV D6 launched G-SAT 6 into Geosynchronous transfer orbit on 27 Aug 2015 with the help of indigenous cryogenic Upper Stage(CUS).
GSLV- F05 successfully launched INSAT-3DR, an advanced weather satellite, weighing 2.221 tonnes into Geosynchronous transfer orbit on 8 September 2016.
GSLV Mk III
Height - 43.43 meters, Dia. - 5 meters, Mass - 640 tonnes
Launches - Total 2, successful 2
GSLV Mk III launched communication satellite G-SAT 19(3.316 tonnes) from 2nd launch pad at SDSC, shriharikota on 5 June 2017.
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