PSLV Milestones

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is India's most trusted satellite launch vehicle. PSLV is ISRO's third-generation rocket. ISRO's first attempt to design and develop an operational vehicle that can be used to orbit application satellite is PSLV. Out of 62 launches of PSLV till 30 December 2024, 59 have been successful.

PSLV D1 - launched IRS 1E on September 20, 1993 (failure)

PSLV D2 - launched IRS P2 on October 15, 1994

PSLV D3 - launched IRS P3 on March 21, 1996

PSLV C1 - launched IRS 1D on September 29, 1997 (partial failure)

PSLV C2 - launched OCEANSAT (IRS P4), KITSAT-3 and DLR - TUBSAT on May 26, 1999

PSLV C3 - launched TES on October 22, 2001

PSLV C4 - launched KALPANA 1 (METSAT) on September 12, 2002

PSLV C5 - launched RESOURCESAT-1 (IRS P6) on October 17, 2003

PSLV C6 - launched CARTOSAT1 and HAMSAT on May 5, 2005

PSLV C7 - launched CARTOSAT2, SRE-1, LAPAN-TUBSAT and PEKUENSAT-1 on January 10, 2007

PSLV C8 - launched AGILE on April 23, 2007

PSLV C9 - launched CARTOSAT-2A, IMS-1 and Eight nano satellites on April 28, 2008

PSLV C10 - launched TECSAR on January 23, 2008

PSLV C11 - launched CHANDRAYAAN-1 on October 22, 2008

PSLV C12 - launched RISAT-2 and ANUSAT on April 20, 2009

PSLV C14 - launched Oceansat-2 and six Nano satellites on September 23, 2009

PSLV C15 - launched CARTOSAT - 2B, Alsat 24 of Algeria, 2 nano satellites of Switzerland and Canada and one tiny Studsat on July 12, 2010

PSLV C16 - launched Indian Satellite Resourcesat-2, 92 kg Indo - Russian Youthsat and a 106kg remote - sensing satellite X-sat of Singapore

PSLV C17 - launched GSAT-12 in orbit on July 15, 2011

PSLV C18 - launched Megha Tropiques, SRMSat Jugnu and Vessel Sat in Orbit on October 12, 2011

PSLV C19 - launched RISAT 1 in orbit on 26 April 2012

PSLV C21 - launched SPOT 6 (France) and PROITERES (Japan) on September 9, 2012

PSLV C20 - launched SARAL, and 6 other satellites Sapphire, Neossat, TUGSAT-1, UniBRITE-1, STRAND-1, AAUSAT3 on 25 February 2013

PSLV C22 - launched IRNSS-1A on 1 July 2013 

PSLV C25 - launched Mars Orbiter Mission on 5 November 2013

PSLV C24 - launched IRNSS-1B on 4 April, 2014

PSLV C23 - launched SPOT7, CanX4, Can X5, AISAT and VELOX1 on 30 June 2014

PSLV C26 - launched IRNSS-1C on 15 October 2014

PSLV C27 - launched IRNSS-1D on March 28, 2015

PSLV C28 - launched UK's Earth observation satellites (DMC3-1, DMC3-2 & DMC3-3), CBNT-1) and De-orbitSail on July 10, 2015

PSLV C30 - launched India's Astrosat, Indonesia's LAPAN-A2, Canada's exactView 9 and United States's Lemur-2 on 28 September 2015

PSLV C29 - launched Singapore's TeLEOS-1 and other five are co-passenger satellites on December 16, 2015

PSLV C31 - launched IRNSS-1E on 20 January 2016

PSLV C32 - launched IRNSS-1F on 10 March 2016

PSLV C33 - launched IRNSS-1G on 28 April 2016

PSLV C34 - launched Cartosat-2C, Swayam SathyabamaSat on 22 June 2016

PSLV C35 - launched ScatSat-1, Pratham and PISat on 26 September 2016

PSLV C36 - launched Resourcesat-2A on 7 December 2016

PSLV C37 - launched Cartosat-2D, INS-1A, INS-1B on 15 February 2017. PSLV-C37 successfully carried and deployed a record 104 satellites in the sun-synchronous orbit.

PSLV C38 - launched Cartosat-2E, NIUSAT on 23 June 2017

PSLV C39 - launched IRNSS-1H on 31 August 2017 (failure)

PSLV C40 - launched Cartosat-2F, MICROSAT-TD, INS-1C on 12 January 2018

PSLV C41 - launched IRNSS-1I on 11 April 2018

PSLV C42 - launched United Kingdom's NovaSAR-S and SSTL S1-4 on 16 September 2018

PSLV C43 - launched HySIS on 29 November 2018

PSLV C44 - launched Microsat-R, Kalamsat V2 on 25 January 2019

PSLV C45 - launched EMISAT, ExseedSat-2, ARIS 101F, ISRO AIS payload on 1 April 2019

PSLV C46 - launched RISAT-2B on 22 May 2019

PSLV C47 - launched Cartosat-3 on 27 November 2019

PSLV C48 - launched RISAT-2BR1 on 11 December 2019

PSLV C49 - launched EOS-01 on 7 November 2020

PSLV C50 - launched GSAT-12R (CMS-1) on 17 December 2020

PSLV C51 - launched SindhuNetra, UNITYSats (x3) on 28 February 2021

PSLV C52 - launched EOS-4/RISAT-1A, INSPIRESat-1, INS-2TD on 14 Feb 2022

PSLV C53 - launched 6 × payloads on POEM-1 on 30 June 2022

PSLV C54 - launched Oceansat-3/EOS-6, BhutanSat (aka INS-2B), Pixxel TD-1 Anand, Thybolt 1 & Thybolt 2 on 26 November 2022

PSLV C55 - launched 7 × payloads on POEM-2 on 22 April 2023

PSLV C56 - launched 7 singapore's satellites on 30 July 2023

PSLV C57 - launched Aditya-L1 on 2 September 2023

PSLV C58 - launched XPoSat, 10 × payloads on POEM-3 on 1 January 2024

PSLV C59 - launched Europe's PROBA-3 - Occulter and Coronagraph on 5 December 2024 

PSLV C60 - launched SPADEX (Chaser + Target), 24 × payloads on POEM-4 on 30 December 2024