List of Satish Dhawan Space Centre launches
List of launches from an Indian spaceport
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This page provides a list summary of the launches taken place in Satish Dhawan Space Centre. It is the main satellite launch centre for ISRO. It is located in Sriharikota, a coastal village in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh, 80 km (50 mi) north of Chennai. Originally called Sriharikota Range (SHAR),[1] an acronym that ISRO has retained to the present day. The centre was renamed in 2002 after the death of ISRO's former chairman Satish Dhawan.
Launch statistics
As of 24 December 2025, there have been a total of 104 launches from the three main orbital pads,[Note 1] including 88 successful launches, 5 partial successes,[Note 2] and 11 failed launches. In addition to this, an indefinite number of suborbital launches has taken place from the Sounding Rocket Complex.
By rocket
Orbital vehicles
- SLV: 4 (2 successful, 1 partial success, 1 failure)
- ASLV: 4 (1 successful, 1 partial success, 2 failures)
- PSLV: 63 (59 successful, 1 partial success, 3 failures)
- GSLV: 18 (12 successful, 2 partial success, 4 failures)
- LVM3: 9 (9 successful, 0 partial success, 0 failures)
- SSLV: 3 (2 successful, 0 partial success, 1 failure)
- Vikram-1: 1 (1 successful, 0 partial success, 0 failure)
Suborbital vehicles
- RLV-TD: 1 (1 successful)
- ATV: 3 (3 successful)
- Vikram-S: 1 (1 successful)
- TV-D1: 1 (1 successful)
- Agnibaan SOrTeD: 1 (1 successful)
By launch pad
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Total: 108
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(Launches from the Sounding Rocket Complex may be greater than 4)
- SLV Launch Pad: 8 (3 Failures, 2 partial success & 3 successful)
- First Launch Pad: 55 (3 Failures, 2 partial success & 50 successful)
- Second Launch Pad: 40 (5 Failures, 1 partial success & 34 successful)
- Sounding Rocket Complex: 4+ (0 Failures, 0 partial success & 4+ successful)
- ALP-01 (Dhanush) Launch Pad: 1 (0 Failures, 0 partial success & 1 successful)
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(Launches from the Sounding Rocket Complex and ALP-01 Launch Pad are not included)
List of launches by pad
SLV Launch Pad
| # | Launch date | Launch vehicle & variant | Version / Serial [2] |
Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 August 1979 | SLV-3 | D1 | Failure | Faulty valve and wrong assessment causes vehicle to crash into the Bay of Bengal (317 s after takeoff), Developmental Flight.[3] |
| 2 | 18 July 1980 | SLV-3 | D2 | Success | Developmental Flight. |
| 3 | 31 May 1981 | SLV-3 | D3 | Partial Success | Did not reach intended height. Satellite only orbits for 9 days, Developmental Flight.[3] |
| 4 | 17 April 1983 | SLV-3 | D4 | Success | Developmental Flight. |
| 5 | 24 March 1987 | ASLV | D1 | Failure | First stage did not ignite after strap-on burnout, Developmental Flight.[4] |
| 6 | 13 July 1988 | ASLV | D2 | Failure | Insufficient control gain, Developmental Flight.[4] |
| 7 | 20 May 1992 | ASLV | D3 | Partial Success | Lower than expected orbit and incorrect spin-stabilisation, payload decayed quickly.[5] |
| 8 | 4 May 1994 | ASLV | D4 | Success | SROSS-C2 launched.[5] |
First Launch Pad
| # | Launch date | Launch Vehicle & Variant | Version / Serial [2] |
Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 September 1993 | PSLV | D1 | Failure | Unexpected large disturbance at the second stage separation resulting in a sub-orbital flight of the vehicle. One of the retro rockets designed to pull the burnt second stage away from the third stage failed leading to loss of rocket and payload (IRS-1E).[6] |
| 2 | 15 October 1994 | PSLV | D2 | Success | With the successful launch, India became the sixth country in the world to launch satellite (IRS-P2) in low-Earth orbit.[6] |
| 3 | 21 March 1996 | PSLV | D3 | Success | Third developmental test flight, PSLV placed the 922 kg IRS-P3 satellite in the intended 817 km polar orbit. |
| 4 | 29 September 1997 | PSLV | C1 | Partial Success | PSLV's first operational flight, placed IRS-1D into a polar orbit. However, it did not place the satellite in the desired circular orbit of 817 km, but in an elliptical orbit due to a leak of helium gas from one of the components.[7][8] |
| 5 | 26 May 1999 | PSLV | C2 | Success | Carried IRS-P4/Oceansat-1, South Korea's KITSAT-3 and DLR-TUBSAT. PSLV's first commercial launch and also was for the first time an Indian launch vehicle carried multiple satellites.[9] |
| 6 | 18 April 2001 | GSLV Mk I(a) | D1 | Partial Success | Developmental Flight, payload (GSAT-1) placed into lower than planned orbit, and did not have sufficient fuel to reach a usable orbit.[10] |
| 7 | 22 October 2001 | PSLV | C3 | Success | Placed three satellites in orbit - TES of India, PROBA (PRoject for On Board Autonomy) of the European Space Agency and the BIRD (Bispectral and Infrared Remote Detection) of the German Aerospace Centre. |
| 8 | 12 September 2002 | PSLV | C4 | Success | Launch of Kalpana-1. India's first launch to place a satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. The flight path of PSLV-C4 was specially modified to inject the satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit having a perigee 250 km and an apogee of 36,000 km. |
| 9 | 8 May 2003 | GSLV Mk I(a) | D2 | Success | Developmental Flight[11] |
| 10 | 17 October 2003 | PSLV | C5 | Success | Payload capability had been progressively increased by more than 600 kg since the first PSLV launch. Launch took place despite heavy rain.[12] |
| 11 | 20 September 2004 | GSLV Mk I(b) | F01 | Success | First operational flight[13] |
| 12 | 10 January 2007 | PSLV | C7 | Success | For the first time, a Dual Launch Adapter (DLA) was used in the PSLV to accommodate two primary satellites at the same time.[14] Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1) also launched. The SRE-1 module remained in orbit for 12 days before re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and splashing down into the Bay of Bengal on 22 January 2007. The re-capture of the SRE-1 module made India the fourth country to do so after the US, Russia and China.[15] |
| 13 | 21 January 2008 | PSLV-CA | C10 | Success | Launch of TECSAR. An Israeli reconnaissance satellite, and first flight of PSLV to launch a satellite into an elliptical orbit with medium inclination.[16] |
| 14 | 23 September 2009 | PSLV-CA | C14 | Success | 7 satellites launched.[17] SwissCube-1[18] and ITUpSAT1,[19] Switzerland's and Turkey's first home-grown satellites launched into space. |
| 15 | 12 July 2010 | PSLV-CA | C15 | Success | Main satellite Cartosat-2B and Algeria's Alsat-2A along with AISSat-1 by UTIAS, TISat-1 by SUPSI, and StudSat. TIsat-1 is the second ever Swiss satellite launched into Space. AISSat-1 and TISat-1 are part of NLS-6.[20] |
| 16 | 20 April 2011 | PSLV | C16 | Success | The standard version, with six solid strap-on booster motors strung around the first stage, was used. ResourceSat-2 launched.[21] |
| 17 | 12 October 2011 | PSLV-CA | C18 | Success | The Megha-Tropiques satellite for climate research launched along with three microsatellites: SRMSAT, the remote sensing satellite Jugnu and the VesselSat-1 to locate ships on high seas.[22][23] |
| 18 | 26 April 2012 | PSLV-XL | C19 | Success | Radar Imaging Satellite-1 (RISAT-1) launched.[24] |
| 19 | 9 September 2012 | PSLV-CA | C21 | Success | ISRO's 100th mission.[25] |
| 20 | 25 February 2013 | PSLV-CA | C20 | Success | Indo-French SARAL and six other foreign satellites launched.[26][27] |
| 21 | 1 July 2013 | PSLV-XL | C22 | Success | Launch of IRNSS-1A, the first satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System.[28] |
| 22 | 5 November 2013 | PSLV-XL | C25 | Success | Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan, India's first mission to Mars.[29] |
| 23 | 4 April 2014 | PSLV-XL | C24 | Success | IRNSS-1B, the second out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) launched.[30][31] |
| 24 | 30 June 2014 | PSLV-CA | C23 | Success | Five foreign satellites including France's SPOT-7 launched.[32] |
| 25 | 16 October 2014 | PSLV-XL | C26 | Success | IRNSS-1C, the third out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) launched.[33] |
| 26 | 10 July 2015 | PSLV-XL | C28 | Success | UK-DMC 3 and two other foreign satellites launched. Heaviest ever commercial launch mission undertaken by ISRO.[34][35] |
| 27 | 28 September 2015 | PSLV-XL | C30 | Success | Launch of India's first dedicated astronomy satellite Astrosat and ISRO's first launch of US satellites.[36] |
| 28 | 16 December 2015 | PSLV-CA | C29 | Success | Commercial launch of 6 Singaporean satellites. Fourth stage re-ignition demonstrated successfully after payload deployment.[37] |
| 29 | 28 April 2016 | PSLV-XL | C33 | Success | IRNSS-1G, the last out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) launched.[38][39] |
| 30 | 23 May 2016 | RLV-TD | HEX 01 | Success | Suborbital. RLV-TD is one of the most technologically challenging endeavors of ISRO towards developing essential technologies for a fully reusable launch vehicle to enable low cost access to space. |
| 31 | 26 September 2016 | PSLV | C35 | Success | First mission of PSLV to launch its payloads into two different orbits. Launch of ScatSat-1, 5 foreign and 2 student satellites.[40][41] |
| 32 | 7 December 2016 | PSLV-XL | C36 | Success | Launch of Resourcesat-2A. First mission of PSLV to use India's own regional navigation system (NavIC) to navigate PSLV.[42][43] |
| 33 | 15 February 2017 | PSLV-XL | C37 | Success | Successfully carried and deployed a record 104 satellites including Cartosat-2D in the polar Sun-synchronous orbit.[44][45] |
| 34 | 23 June 2017 | PSLV-XL | C38 | Success | Simultaneous launch of 31 satellites including 29 foreign satellites, 1 student satellite and Cartosat-2E.[46] |
| 35 | 12 January 2018 | PSLV-XL | C40 | Success | Simultaneous launch of 31 satellites including 28 foreign satellites and ISRO's 100th satellite Cartosat-2F.[47][48] |
| 36 | 11 April 2018 | PSLV-XL | C41 | Success | Launch of IRNSS-1I, the ninth satellite of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS).[49] |
| 37 | 16 September 2018 | PSLV-CA | C42 | Success | Launch of NovaSAR and S1-4 of Surrey Satellite Technology[50] |
| 38 | 24 January 2019 | PSLV-DL | C44 | Success | Launch of Microsat-R and Kalamsat.[51] |
| 39 | 1 April 2019 | PSLV-QL | C45 | Success | Launch of EMISAT and 28 foreign satellites.[52] |
| 40 | 22 May 2019 | PSLV-CA | C46 | Success | Launch of RISAT-2B.[53] |
| 41 | 11 December 2019 | PSLV-QL | C48 | Success | Launch of 9 Commercial Satellites and RISAT-2BR1.[54] |
| 42 | 7 November 2020 | PSLV-DL | C49 | Success | Launch of 9 Commercial Satellites and EOS-01.[55] |
| 43 | 28 February 2021 | PSLV-DL | C51 | Success | Launch of Amazonia-1 and 13 commercial satellites.[56] |
| 44 | 14 February 2022 | PSLV-XL | C52 | Success | Launch of EOS-4/RISAT-1A, INSPIRESat-1 and INS-2TD.[57][58] |
| 45 | 7 August 2022 | SSLV | D1 | Failure | First demonstration flight of SSLV which carried the satellite payloads EOS-02 and AzaadiSAT. Due to sensor failure coupled with shortcomings of onboard software, the stage as well as the two satellite payloads were injected into an unstable elliptical orbit, and subsequently destroyed upon reentry.[59][60][61] |
| 46 | 26 November 2022 | PSLV-XL | C54 | Success | Launch of the EOS-06/Oceansat-3 satellite and 8 commercial cubesats. |
| 47 | 10 February 2023 | SSLV | D2 | Success | Launch of EOS-07 and two other satellites |
| 48 | 22 April 2023 | PSLV-CA | C55 | Success | Commercial launch for Singapore's TeLEOS-2 satellite. |
| 49 | 30 July 2023 | PSLV-CA | C56 | Success | Commercial launch for Singapore's DS-SAR satellite. |
| 50 | 21 October 2023 | TV-D1 | Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 | Success | Suborbital. High altitude abort test for the Gaganyaan crew spacecraft. |
| 51 | 1 January 2024 | PSLV-DL | C58 | Success | Launch of the XPoSat scientific mission |
| 52 | 16 August 2024 | SSLV | D3 | Success | Launch of EOS-08 and SR-0 DEMOSAT [62] passenger satellite |
| 53 | 5 December 2024 | PSLV-XL | C59 | Success | Launch of Proba-3 dual probes |
| 54 | 30 December 2024 | PSLV-CA | C60 | Success | Launch of SPADEX Chaser and Target dual probes |
| 55 | 18 May 2025 | PSLV-XL | C61 | Failure | Launch of EOS-09. Performance was nominal till 2nd Stage, an "observation" in 3rd Stage led to mission failure.[63] It was later clarified by ISRO Chairman that the "observation" was "less chamber pressure". While other sources suspect that the flex nozzle control system was at fault.[64] |
| 56 | 12 January 2026 | PSLV-DL | C62 | Failure | The mission was launched on 12 January 2026 with multiple payloads for customers[65] but failed to reach orbit.[66][67][68] It has been presumed crashed near 75°E, 18°S over the Southern Indian Ocean.[69] |
| 57 | 18 July 2026 | Vikram-1 | Aagaman | Success | Maiden flight of Vikram-1. Cosmoserve Space's robotic arm Embrace and an on-orbit demonstration from German company DCUBED were hosted on the upper stage of the mission. The rocket successfully reached the orbit in its first attempt.[70] |
Second Launch Pad
| # | Launch date | Launch Vehicle & Variant | Version / Serial [2] |
Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 May 2005 | PSLV | C6 | Success | First launch from the Second Launch Pad, inaugurated on the immediately preceding day. After its integration in the Vehicle Assembly Building, the PSLV-C6 was transported on rails to the Umbilical Tower (UT) located 1 km away using the Mobile Launch Pedestal where the final operations were carried out.[71] It carried CARTOSAT-1 and HAMSAT |
| 2 | 10 July 2006 | GSLV Mk I(b) | F02 | Failure | Both rocket and satellite (INSAT-4C) had to be destroyed over the Bay of Bengal after the rocket's trajectory veered outside permitted limits. |
| 3 | 23 April 2007 | PSLV-CA | C8 | Success | Launch of ASI's AGILE astronomical satellite. First flight of the 'Core-Alone' version. ISRO's first exclusively commercial launch.[72] |
| 4 | 2 September 2007 | GSLV Mk I(b) | F04 | Partial Success | Successful Launch,[73] apogee lower and inclination higher than expected, due to minor error in guidance subsystem.[74] Eventually the 2160 kg payload reached the designated geostationary transfer orbit.[75][76] |
| 5 | 28 April 2008 | PSLV-CA | C9 | Success | Rocket put 10 satellites into orbit in a precisely timed sequence, highest by any Indian launch vehicle. Two satellites belonged to India and the remaining were very small ones built by universities in different countries.[77] |
| 6 | 22 October 2008 | PSLV-XL | C11 | Success | First flight of the PSLV-XL version. Carried Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the Moon launched.[78] |
| 7 | 20 April 2009 | PSLV-CA | C12 | Success | India's first all-weather radar imaging reconnaissance satellite RISAT-2 launched.[79] |
| 8 | 15 April 2010 | GSLV | D3 | Failure | Launch of GSAT-4. First flight test of the ISRO designed and built Cryogenic Upper Stage. Failed to reach orbit due to malfunction of Fuel Booster Turbo Pump (FBTP) of the Cryogenic Upper Stage.[80] |
| 9 | 25 December 2010 | GSLV Mk I(c) | D4 | Failure | First flight of GSLV Mk.I (c) Destroyed by range safety officer after loss of control of liquid fuelled boosters.[81] |
| 10 | 15 July 2011 | PSLV-XL | C17 | Success | Indigenously developed flight computer 'Vikram' used for the first time. GSAT-12 launched.[82] |
| 11 | 5 January 2014 | GSLV | D5 | Success | Launch of GSLV with indigenously built cryogenic engine and carrying GSAT-14 satellite.[83][84][85] |
| 12 | 18 December 2014 | LVM3 | X | Success | Sub-orbital development test flight. It carried the CARE module.[86][87][88] |
| 13 | 28 March 2015 | PSLV-XL | C27 | Success | IRNSS-1D, the fourth out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) launched.[89] |
| 14 | 27 August 2015 | GSLV | D6 | Success | GSAT-6 launched and second successful launch of GSLV with indigenous cryogenic upper stage (CE-7.5).[90] |
| 15 | 20 January 2016 | PSLV-XL | C31 | Success | IRNSS-1E, the fifth out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) launched.[91] |
| 16 | 10 March 2016 | PSLV-XL | C32 | Success | IRNSS-1F, the sixth out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) launched.[92][93][94] |
| 17 | 22 June 2016 | PSLV-XL | C34 | Success | Simultaneous launch of 20 satellites including 17 foreign satellites, 2 student satellites and Cartosat-2C.[95][96][97] |
| 18 | 8 September 2016 | GSLV | F05 | Success | First operational flight of GSLV Mk II with indigenous CUS carrying INSAT-3DR.[98][99] |
| 19 | 5 May 2017 | GSLV | F09 | Success | Launch of GSAT-9 / South Asia Satellite.[100][101] |
| 20 | 5 June 2017 | LVM3 | D1 | Success | First orbital test launch of GSLV Mk. III with a functional cryogenic stage. Launch of GSAT-19 satellite.[102][103] |
| 21 | 31 August 2017 | PSLV-XL | C39 | Failure | Payload fairing (heat shield) failed to separate, causing the IRNSS-1H satellite to remain inside the fairing with the payload dispenser detaching the satellite internally.[104] |
| 22 | 29 March 2018 | GSLV | F08 | Success | Launch of GSAT-6A using an enhanced version of the Vikas engine called High Thrust Vikas Engine (HTVE) which had a thrust of 848 kN in GS2 stage.[105][106] |
| 23 | 14 November 2018 | LVM3 | D2 | Success | Launch of GSAT-29.[107] |
| 24 | 29 November 2018 | PSLV-CA | C43 | Success | Launch of HySIS and 30 commercial satellites.[108] |
| 25 | 19 December 2018 | GSLV | F11 | Success | Launch of GSAT-7A.[109] |
| 26 | 22 July 2019 | LVM3 | M1 | Success | Launch of Chandrayaan-2.[110] |
| 27 | 27 November 2019 | PSLV-XL | C47 | Success | Launch of Cartosat-3.[111] |
| 28 | 17 December 2020 | PSLV-XL | C50 | Success | Launch of CMS-01.[112] |
| 29 | 12 August 2021 | GSLV | F10 | Failure | Launch of EOS-03. Cryogenic upper stage failure resulted in mission failure.[113] |
| 30 | 30 June 2022 | PSLV-CA | C53 | Success | Launch of DS-EO electro-optical satellite and two other small satellites from Singapore.[114] It also carried the PSLV Orbital Experiment Module (POEM-1) that is attached to upper stage to carry in-orbit experiments and carries 6 hosted payloads.[115] |
| 31 | 22 October 2022 | LVM3 | M2 | Success | Carried 36 OneWeb Satellites. First commercial launch of LVM 3.It is the heaviest payload that is launched by a LVM 3 and ISRO to date. |
| 32 | 26 March 2023 | LVM3 | M3 | Success | It carried 36 OneWeb Satellites. Second commercial launch of LVM 3. |
| 33 | 29 May 2023 | GSLV | F12 | Success | Launch of NVS-01 navigation satellite. |
| 34 | 14 July 2023 | LVM3 | M4 | Success | Launch of Chandrayaan-3 lunar exploration mission. |
| 35 | 2 September 2023 | PSLV-XL | C57 | Success | Launch of Aditya-L1 scientific mission |
| 36 | 17 February 2024 | GSLV | F14 | Success | Launch of INSAT-3DS weather satellite |
| 37 | 29 January 2025 | GSLV | F15 | Success | Launch of NVS-02 navigation satellite.[116] |
| 38 | 30 July 2025 | GSLV | F16 | Success | Launch of NISAR navigation satellite.[117] first joint mission between NASA and ISRO first free-flying space mission to feature two radar instruments first time the two agencies have co-developed hardware for an Earth-observing mission.[118] |
| 39 | 2 November 2025 | LVM3 | M5 | Success | Launch Of GSAT-7R (CMS-03) Communication Satellite[119] |
| 40 | 24 December 2025 | LVM3 | M6 | Success | Launch of Bluebird Block 2 communications satellite.[120][121] |
Sounding Rocket Complex
| # | Launch date | Launch Vehicle & Variant | Version / Serial [2] |
Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 March 2010[122] | ATV | D01 | Success | Carried a passive scramjet engine combustor module |
| 2 | 28 August 2016[122] | ATV | D02 | Success | The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System |
| 3 | 18 November 2022[123] | Vikram-S | Prarambh | Success | Carried 3 customer payloads. It was a India's First Private Rocket launch by Skyroot Aerospace |
| 4 | 22 July 2024[122] | ATV | D03 | Success | Demonstration of Air Breathing Propulsion Technology |
ALP-01 (Dhanush) Launch Pad
| # | Launch date | Launch Vehicle & Variant | Version / Serial [2] |
Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 May 2024 | Agnibaan SOrTeD | Agnibaan SOrTeD | Success | Suborbital technology demonstrator from a privately built launch pad. Carried a mass simulator up to a height of 60 km (37 mi). |
Planned launches
Other test activities by ISRO
| Launch date | Launch pad | Launch Vehicle & Variant | Version / Serial [2] |
Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2018 | - | ISRO Pad Abort Test | PAT | Success | Crew Escape System along with the simulated crew module with a mass of 12.6 tonnes, lifted off at 07.00 AM (IST) at the opening of the launch window from its pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. |
See also
Notes
- Manually counting from the below given list of launches. All the stats given in this section have been found out using the same way.
- A partial success occurs when the payload is placed into an orbit where it was still usable even though the intended height or orbit was not reached, or which could be corrected with the spacecraft's own propulsion.
