List of Satish Dhawan Space Centre launches
The page provides a list summary of the launches taken place in Satish Dhawan Space Centre. It is the main satellite launch centre for the Indian Space Research Organisation. It is located in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, north of Chennai. Originally called Sriharikota Range, 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 12 December 2019, there have been a total of 75 launches, including 62 successful launches, 4 partial successes, and 9 failed launches.By rocket
- SLV: 4
- ASLV: 4
- PSLV: 50
- GSLV: 17
By launch pad
- SLV Launch Pad: 8
- First Launch Pad: 40
- Second Launch Pad: 27
By year
Launch log
| # | Launch date | Launch pad | Launch Vehicle & Variant | Version / Serial | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 10 August 1979 | SLV LP | SLV-3 | D1 | Faulty valve and wrong assessment causes vehicle to crash into the Bay of Bengal, Developmental Flight. | |
| 2 | 18 July 1980 | SLV LP | SLV-3 | D2 | Developmental Flight. | |
| 3 | 31 May 1981 | SLV LP | SLV-3 | D3 | Did not reach intended height. Satellite only orbits for 9 days, Developmental Flight. | |
| 4 | 17 April 1983 | SLV LP | SLV-3 | D4 | Developmental Flight. | |
| 5 | 24 March 1987 | SLV LP | ASLV | D1 | First stage did not ignite after strap-on burnout, Developmental Flight. | |
| 6 | 13 July 1988 | SLV LP | ASLV | D2 | Insufficient control gain, Developmental Flight. | |
| 7 | 20 May 1992 | SLV LP | ASLV | D3 | Lower than expected orbit and incorrect spin-stabilisation, payload decayed quickly. | |
| 8 | 20 September 1993 | First | PSLV | D1 | 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. | |
| 9 | 4 May 1994 | SLV LP | ASLV | D4 | SROSS-C2 launched. | |
| 10 | 15 October 1994 | First | PSLV | D2 | With the successful launch, India became the sixth country in the world to launch satellite in low-Earth orbit. | |
| 11 | 21 March 1996 | First | PSLV | D3 | Third developmental test flight, PSLV placed the 922 kg IRS-P3 satellite in the intended 817 km polar orbit. | |
| 12 | 29 September 1997 | First | PSLV | C1 | 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. | |
| 13 | 26 May 1999 | First | PSLV | C2 | PSLV's first commercial launch and also was for the first time an Indian launch vehicle carried multiple satellites. | |
| 14 | 18 April 2001 | First | GSLV Mk I | D1 | Developmental Flight, payload placed into lower than planned orbit, and did not have sufficient fuel to reach a usable orbit. | |
| 15 | 22 October 2001 | First | PSLV | C3 | Placed three satellites in orbit - TES of India, PROBA of the European Space Agency and the BIRD of Germany. | |
| 16 | 12 September 2002 | First | PSLV | C4 | 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. | |
| 17 | 8 May 2003 | First | GSLV Mk I | D2 | Developmental Flight | |
| 18 | 17 October 2003 | First | PSLV | C5 | Payload capability had been progressively increased by more than 600 kg since the first PSLV launch. Launch took place despite heavy rain. | |
| 19 | 20 September 2004 | First | GSLV Mk I | F01 | First operational flight | |
| 20 | 5 May 2005 | Second | PSLV | C6 | 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 located 1 km away using the Mobile Launch Pedestal where the final operations were carried out. | |
| 21 | 10 July 2006 | Second | GSLV Mk I | F02 | Both rocket and satellite had to be destroyed over the Bay of Bengal after the rocket's trajectory veered outside permitted limits. | |
| 22 | 10 January 2007 | First | PSLV | C7 | For the first time, a Dual Launch Adopter was used in the PSLV to accommodate two primary satellites at the same time. Space capsule Recovery Experiment 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 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. | |
| 23 | 23 April 2007 | Second | PSLV-CA | C8 | First flight of the 'Core-Alone' version. ISRO's first exclusively commercial launch. | |
| 24 | 2 September 2007 | Second | GSLV Mk I | F04 | Successful Launch, apogee lower and inclination higher than expected, due to minor error in guidance subsystem. Eventually the 2160 kg payload reached the designated geostationary transfer orbit. | |
| 25 | 21 January 2008 | First | PSLV-CA | C10 | An Israeli reconnaissance satellite, and ISRO's first fully commercially launch. | |
| 26 | 28 April 2008 | Second | PSLV-CA | C9 | 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. | |
| 27 | 22 October 2008 | Second | PSLV-XL | C11 | First flight of the PSLV-XL version. Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the Moon launched. | |
| 28 | 20 April 2009 | Second | PSLV-CA | C12 | India's first all weather observation spy satellite RISAT-2 launched. | |
| 29 | 23 September 2009 | First | PSLV-CA | C14 | 7 satellites launched. SwissCube-1 and ITUpSAT1, Switzerland's and Turkey's first home-grown satellites launched into space. | |
| 30 | 15 April 2010 | Second | GSLV Mk II | D3 | First flight test of the ISRO designed and built Cryogenic Upper Stage. Failed to reach orbit due to malfunction of Fuel Booster Turbo Pump of the Cryogenic Upper Stage. | |
| 31 | 12 July 2010 | First | PSLV-CA | C15 | Main satellite Cartosat-2B and Algeria's ALSAT-2A along with AISSat-1, TIsat-1, and StudSat. TIsat-1 is the second ever Swiss satellite launched into Space. AISSat-1 and TIsat are part of NLS-6. | |
| 32 | 25 December 2010 | Second | GSLV Mk I | D4 | First flight of GSLV Mk.I Destroyed by range safety officer after loss of control of liquid fuelled boosters. | |
| 33 | 20 April 2011 | First | PSLV | C16 | The standard version, with six solid strap-on booster motors strung around the first stage, was used. ResourceSat-2 launched. | |
| 34 | 15 July 2011 | Second | PSLV-XL | C17 | Indigenously developed flight computer 'Vikram' used for the first time. GSAT-12 launched. | |
| 35 | 12 October 2011 | First | PSLV-CA | C18 | 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. | |
| 36 | 26 April 2012 | First | PSLV-XL | C19 | Radar Imaging Satellite-1 launched. | |
| 37 | 9 September 2012 | First | PSLV-CA | C21 | ISRO's 100th mission. | |
| 38 | 25 February 2013 | First | PSLV-CA | C20 | Indo-French SARAL and six other foreign satellites launched. | |
| 39 | 1 July 2013 | First | PSLV-XL | C22 | Launch of IRNSS-1A, the first satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. | |
| 40 | 5 November 2013 | First | PSLV-XL | C25 | Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan, India's first mission to Mars. | |
| 41 | 5 January 2014 | Second | GSLV Mk II | D5 | Launch of GSLV with indigenously built cryogenic engine and carrying GSAT-14 satellite. | |
| 42 | 4 April 2014 | First | PSLV-XL | C24 | IRNSS-1B, the second out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched. | |
| 43 | 30 June 2014 | First | PSLV-CA | C23 | Five foreign satellites including France's SPOT-7 launched. | |
| 44 | 16 October 2014 | First | PSLV-XL | C26 | IRNSS-1C, the third out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched. | |
| 45 | 18 December 2014 | Second | GSLV Mk III | LVM3-X | Sub-orbital development test flight. It carried the CARE module. | |
| 46 | 28 March 2015 | Second | PSLV-XL | C27 | IRNSS-1D, the fourth out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched. | |
| 47 | 10 July 2015 | First | PSLV-XL | C28 | UK-DMC 3 and two other foreign satellites launched. Heaviest ever commercial launch mission undertaken by ISRO. | |
| 48 | 27 August 2015 | Second | GSLV Mk II | D6 | GSAT-6 launched and second successful launch of GSLV with indigenous cryogenic upper stage. | |
| 49 | 28 September 2015 | First | PSLV-XL | C30 | Launch of India's first dedicated astronomy satellite Astrosat and ISRO's first launch of US satellites. | |
| 50 | 16 December 2015 | First | PSLV-CA | C29 | Commercial launch of 6 Singaporean satellites. Fourth stage re-ignition demonstrated successfully after payload deployment. | |
| 51 | 20 January 2016 | Second | PSLV-XL | C31 | IRNSS-1E, the fifth out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched. | |
| 52 | 10 March 2016 | Second | PSLV-XL | C32 | IRNSS-1F, the sixth out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched. | |
| 53 | 28 April 2016 | First | PSLV-XL | C33 | IRNSS-1G, the last out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched. | |
| 54 | 22 June 2016 | Second | PSLV-XL | C34 | Simultaneous launch of 20 satellites including 17 foreign satellites, 2 student satellites and Cartosat-2C. | |
| 55 | 8 September 2016 | Second | GSLV Mk II | F05 | First operational flight of GSLV Mk II with indigenous CUS carrying INSAT-3DR. | |
| 56 | 26 September 2016 | First | PSLV | C35 | First mission of PSLV to launch its payloads into two different orbits. Launch of ScatSat-1, 5 foreign and 2 student satellites. | |
| 57 | 7 December 2016 | First | PSLV-XL | C36 | Launch of Resourcesat-2A. First mission of PSLV to use India's own regional navigation system to navigate PSLV. | |
| 58 | 15 February 2017 | First | PSLV-XL | C37 | Successfully carried and deployed a record 104 satellites including Cartosat-2D in the polar sun synchronous orbit. | |
| 59 | 5 May 2017 | Second | GSLV Mk II | F09 | Launch of GSAT-9 / South Asia Satellite. | |
| 60 | 5 June 2017 | Second | GSLV Mk III | D1 | First orbital test launch of GSLV Mk. III with a functional cryogenic stage. Launch of GSAT-19 satellite. | |
| 61 | 23 June 2017 | First | PSLV-XL | C38 | Simultaneous launch of 31 satellites including 29 foreign satellites, 1 student satellite and Cartosat-2E. | |
| 62 | 31 August 2017 | Second | PSLV-XL | C39 | Payload fairing failed to separate, causing the IRNSS-1H satellite to remain inside the fairing with the payload dispenser detaching the satellite internally. | |
| 63 | 12 January 2018 | First | PSLV-XL | C40 | Simultaneous launch of 31 satellites including 28 foreign satellites and ISRO's 100th satellite Cartosat-2F. | |
| 64 | 29 March 2018 | Second | GSLV Mk II | F08 | Launch of GSAT-6A using an enhanced version of the Vikas engine called High Thrust Vikas Engine which had a thrust of 848 kN in GS2 stage. | |
| 65 | 11 April 2018 | First | PSLV-XL | C41 | Launch of IRNSS-1I, the ninth satellite of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. | |
| 66 | 16 September 2018 | First | PSLV-CA | C42 | Launch of NovaSAR and S1-4 of Surrey Satellite Technology | |
| 67 | 14 November 2018 | Second | GSLV Mk III | D2 | Launch of GSAT-29. | |
| 68 | 29 November 2018 | Second | PSLV-CA | C43 | Launch of HySIS and 30 commercial satellites. | |
| 69 | 19 December 2018 | Second | GSLV Mk II | F11 | Launch of GSAT-7A. | |
| 70 | 24 January 2019 | First | PSLV-DL | C44 | Launch of Microsat-R and Kalamsat. | |
| 71 | 1 April 2019 | First | PSLV-QL | C45 | Launch of EMISAT and 28 foreign satellites. | |
| 72 | 22 May 2019 | First | PSLV-CA | C46 | Launch of RISAT-2B. | |
| 73 | 22 July 2019 | Second | GSLV Mk III | M1 | Launch of Chandrayaan-2. | |
| 74 | 27 November 2019 | Second | PSLV-XL | C47 | Launch of Cartosat-3. | |
| 75 | 11 December 2019 | First | PSLV-QL | C48 | Launch of 9 Commercial Satellites and RISAT-2BR1. |