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SRIHARIKOTA/BENGALURU: India's archetypal abstraction ngo of 2026 failed connected Monday aft Isro's workhorse PSLV suffered a glitch successful its solid-propellant 3rd signifier (PS3), costing 16 satellites and an ambitious task of strategic, diplomatic and commercialized importance. The PSLV-C62 nonaccomplishment comes 9 months aft a glitch successful the aforesaid 3rd signifier of PSLV-C61 prevented EOS-09, different strategical satellite, from reaching orbit connected May 18, 2025. This is besides the archetypal clip PSLV has failed consecutively. The main outer was EOS-N1 (Anvesha), a DRDO outer designed to springiness India's subject sharper eyes successful abstraction done a hyperspectral imaging payload.
Things started going incorrect 8 min aft launch, says Isro chairmanTowards the extremity of the 3rd signifier we saw a small much disturbance successful the conveyance rotation rates and subsequently determination was a deviation successful the formation path.
We are analysing the data,” Isro president V Narayanan said. Isro is yet to marque nationalist the nonaccomplishment investigation study of the PSLV-C61 mission. All appeared bully connected Monday erstwhile the 44.4-m PSLV, flying its 5th ngo successful dual strapon configuration, lifted disconnected from SDSC’s archetypal motorboat pad astatine 10.18 am, astir 1.30 minutes aft the scheduled time.
About 8 minutes and 40 seconds later, betwixt the thirdstage shut-off and fourthstage (PS4) ignition, thing went wrong.
Soon, Narayanan announced the ngo had failed. It besides carried a outer (Munal) for Nepal and a exertion demonstrator (AyulSat) from start-up OrbitAID aimed astatine cracking on-orbit refuelling, on with 13 different payloads. AyulSAT, which was to show substance transportation internally and aboriginal enactment arsenic a people outer for OrbitAID’s chaser outer planned astir six months later, would person enactment India a measurement person to investigating on-orbit refuelling.
China is the lone state which present has on-orbit refuelling technology. OrbitAID laminitis and CEO Sakthikumar R told TOI connected Monday: “We are present forced to motorboat some the people and chaser satellites together.
We anticipation to bash that aboriginal this year.” The rocket besides carried satellites from the UK, Brazil, Thailand and Spain, isolated from payloads developed by Indian startups demonstrating respective technologies, including AI processing successful orbit, store-andforward connection systems, IoT services, radiation measurement, cultivation information collection, and a re-entry capsule to beryllium deployed aft re-start and deorbit of the PS4 stage. This nonaccomplishment is the 3rd motorboat setback for Isro since Jan 2025 — GSLV-F15, which carried the NVS-02 navigation satellite, failed to spot the outer successful geostationary orbit owed to a propulsion strategy malfunction.
