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, north of Chennai. Originally called Sriharikota Range (SHAR), 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,Manually counting from the below given list of launches. All the stats given in this section have been found out using the same way. including 88 successful launches, 5 partial successes,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. 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: 19 (13 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
(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: 41 (5 Failures, 1 partial success & 35 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)
By year
(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 Result Notes 1 10 August 1979 SLV-3 D1 Faulty valve and wrong assessment causes vehicle to crash into the Bay of Bengal (317 s after takeoff), Developmental Flight. 2 18 July 1980 SLV-3 D2 Developmental Flight. 3 31 May 1981 SLV-3 D3 Did not reach intended height. Satellite only orbits for 9 days, Developmental Flight. 4 17 April 1983 SLV-3 D4 Developmental Flight. 5 24 March 1987 ASLV D1 First stage did not ignite after strap-on burnout, Developmental Flight. 6 13 July 1988 ASLV D2 Insufficient control gain, Developmental Flight. 7 20 May 1992 ASLV D3 Lower than expected orbit and incorrect spin-stabilisation, payload decayed quickly. 8 4 May 1994 ASLV D4 SROSS-C2 launched.
First Launch Pad
# Launch date Launch Vehicle & Variant Version / Serial Result Notes 1 20 September 1993 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 leading to loss of rocket and payload (IRS-1E). 2 15 October 1994 PSLV D2 With the successful launch, India became the sixth country in the world to launch satellite (IRS-P2) in low-Earth orbit. 3 21 March 1996 PSLV D3 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 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. 5 26 May 1999 PSLV C2 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. 6 18 April 2001 GSLV Mk I(a) D1 Developmental Flight, payload (GSAT-1) placed into lower than planned orbit, and did not have sufficient fuel to reach a usable orbit. 7 22 October 2001 PSLV C3 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 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 Developmental Flight 10 17 October 2003 PSLV C5 Payload capability had been progressively increased by more than 600 kg since the first PSLV launch. Launch took place despite heavy rain. 11 20 September 2004 F01 First operational flight 12 10 January 2007 PSLV C7 For the first time, a Dual Launch Adapter (DLA) was used in the PSLV to accommodate two primary satellites at the same time. 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. 13 21 January 2008 PSLV-CA C10 Launch of TECSAR. An Israeli reconnaissance satellite, and first flight of PSLV to launch a satellite into an elliptical orbit with medium inclination. 14 23 September 2009 PSLV-CA C14 7 satellites launched. SwissCube-1 and ITUpSAT1, Switzerland's and Turkey's first home-grown satellites launched into space. 15 12 July 2010 PSLV-CA C15 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. 16 20 April 2011 PSLV C16 The standard version, with six solid strap-on booster motors strung around the first stage, was used. ResourceSat-2 launched. 17 12 October 2011 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. 18 26 April 2012 PSLV-XL C19 Radar Imaging Satellite-1 (RISAT-1) launched. 19 9 September 2012 PSLV-CA C21 ISRO's 100th mission. 20 25 February 2013 PSLV-CA C20 Indo-French SARAL and six other foreign satellites launched. 21 1 July 2013 PSLV-XL C22 Launch of IRNSS-1A, the first satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. 22 5 November 2013 PSLV-XL C25 Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan, India's first mission to Mars. 23 4 April 2014 PSLV-XL C24 IRNSS-1B, the second out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) launched. 24 30 June 2014 PSLV-CA C23 Five foreign satellites including France's SPOT-7 launched. 25 16 October 2014 PSLV-XL C26 IRNSS-1C, the third out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) launched. 26 10 July 2015 PSLV-XL C28 UK-DMC 3 and two other foreign satellites launched. Heaviest ever commercial launch mission undertaken by ISRO. 27 28 September 2015 PSLV-XL C30 Launch of India's first dedicated astronomy satellite Astrosat and ISRO's first launch of US satellites. 28 16 December 2015 PSLV-CA C29 Commercial launch of 6 Singaporean satellites. Fourth stage re-ignition demonstrated successfully after payload deployment. 29 28 April 2016 PSLV-XL C33 IRNSS-1G, the last out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) launched. 30 23 May 2016 RLV-TD HEX 01 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 First mission of PSLV to launch its payloads into two different orbits. Launch of ScatSat-1, 5 foreign and 2 student satellites. 32 7 December 2016 PSLV-XL C36 Launch of Resourcesat-2A. First mission of PSLV to use India's own regional navigation system (NavIC) to navigate PSLV. 33 15 February 2017 PSLV-XL C37 Successfully carried and deployed a record 104 satellites including Cartosat-2D in the polar Sun-synchronous orbit. 34 23 June 2017 PSLV-XL C38 Simultaneous launch of 31 satellites including 29 foreign satellites, 1 student satellite and Cartosat-2E. 35 12 January 2018 PSLV-XL C40 Simultaneous launch of 31 satellites including 28 foreign satellites and ISRO's 100th satellite Cartosat-2F. 36 11 April 2018 PSLV-XL C41 Launch of IRNSS-1I, the ninth satellite of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). 37 16 September 2018 PSLV-CA C42 Launch of NovaSAR and S1-4 of Surrey Satellite Technology 38 24 January 2019 PSLV-DL C44 Launch of Microsat-R and Kalamsat. 39 1 April 2019 PSLV-QL C45 Launch of EMISAT and 28 foreign satellites. 40 22 May 2019 PSLV-CA C46 Launch of RISAT-2B. 41 11 December 2019 PSLV-QL C48 Launch of 9 Commercial Satellites and RISAT-2BR1. 42 7 November 2020 PSLV-DL C49 Launch of 9 Commercial Satellites and EOS-01. 43 28 February 2021 PSLV-DL C51 Launch of Amazonia-1 and 13 commercial satellites. 44 14 February 2022 PSLV-XL C52 Launch of EOS-4/RISAT-1A, INSPIRESat-1 and INS-2TD. 45 7 August 2022 SSLV D1 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. 46 26 November 2022 PSLV-XL C54 Launch of the EOS-06/Oceansat-3 satellite and 8 commercial cubesats. 47 10 February 2023 SSLV D2 Launch of EOS-07 and two other satellites 48 22 April 2023 PSLV-CA C55 Commercial launch for Singapore's TeLEOS-2 satellite. 49 30 July 2023 PSLV-CA C56 Commercial launch for Singapore's DS-SAR satellite. 50 21 October 2023 TV-D1 Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 Suborbital. High altitude abort test for the Gaganyaan crew spacecraft. 51 1 January 2024PSLV-DLC58 Launch of the XPoSat scientific mission 52 16 August 2024SSLV D3 Launch of EOS-08 and SR-0 DEMOSAT passenger satellite 53 5 December 2024PSLV-XL C59 Launch of Proba-3 dual probes 54 30 December 2024PSLV-CA C60 Launch of SPADEX Chaser and Target dual probes 55 18 May 2025PSLV-XL C61 Launch of EOS-09. Performance was nominal till 2nd Stage, an "observation" in 3rd Stage led to mission failure. 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. 56 12 January 2026PSLV-DL C62 The mission was launched on 12 January 2026 with multiple payloads for customersPress Release:Press Information Bureau but failed to reach orbit. It has been presumed crashed near 75°E, 18°S over the Southern Indian Ocean. 57 18 July 2026 Vikram-1 Aagaman 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.
Second Launch Pad