Launch Vehicle

SLV-3

retired

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Specifications

Status: retired
Height: 22 m
Diameter: 1 m
Mass: 17,000 kg
Stages: 4
Payload to LEO: 40 kg
First flight: 1979-08-10
Total launches: 4
Success / Fail: 3 / 1

The Satellite Launch Vehicle or SLV is a Small-lift launch vehicle, was a project started in the early 1970s by the Indian Space Research Organisation to develop the technology needed to launch satellites. SLV was intended to reach a height of 400 kilometres (250 mi) and carry a payload of 40 kg (88 lb).

Payloads it launched · 3