PSLV

The SSLV’s second-stage motor is derived from the PSLV’s third-stage motor.

Sixteen spacecraft were lost to air and sea in the January 12 PSLV failure.

The January 12 PSLV launch failed due to anomalous performance of the rocket’s third stage that resulted in visible tumbling on mission control telemetry and the livestream.

The January 12 flight was the 64th flight of the PSLV launch vehicle.

The PSLV and the GSLV Mk II share the S139 solid rocket booster as their core stage.

KID was part of the payload carried by the Indian PSLV rocket launched on 12 January.

The KID prototype survived the failed PSLV mission.

The PSLV mission failed to place its payloads into their intended orbits and failed overall.

Marcy Mabry previously worked on the launch of the first Amazonia-1 satellite in 2021 using an Indian PSLV launcher.

The first Amazonia-1 satellite was launched on board an Indian PSLV in February 2021.

Amazonia-1B is the direct successor to Amazonia-1, which launched in February 2021 on an Indian PSLV.

The first Amazônia satellite was launched aboard an Indian PSLV rocket in February 2021.

KID was the last co-passenger payload to be connected with the PSLV fourth stage and was slated to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere toward splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean.

The previous PSLV mission, PSLV-C61 launched in May 2025, also failed to reach orbit because of a problem with the third stage.

The failure analysis committee report on the loss of PSLV-C61 has not been placed in the public domain.

ISRO established a failure analysis committee (fact-finding committee) to identify the reasons behind the PSLV-C62 mission loss.

The PSLV third stage uses solid propellant, produces a maximum thrust of 250 kilonewtons, and has a burn duration of just under two minutes.

Until the recent PSLV failures, all ISRO missions carrying foreign payloads had been successful.