2005 May 5 - 04:44 GMT - Launch Vehicle: PSLV. PSLV-C6 CartoSat 1 Mass: 1,560 kg (3,430 lb). Spacecraft: IRS. Agency: ISRO. Perigee: 620 km (380 mi). Apogee: 623 km (387 mi). Inclination: 97.90 deg. Period: 97.10 min. First launch from new second PSLV pad at Sriharikota. Eleventh satellite in the Indian Remote Sensing satellite series, Cartosat-1 carried two panchromatic cameras, one fore-mounted with a tilt of +26 deg and the other aft-mounted with a tilt of -5 deg from the yaw axis. Together they provided black-and-white stereoscopic pictures in the visible region ( 0.50-0.85 micron) of the electromagnetic spectrum with a spatial resolution of 2.5 metre. The cameras covered a swath of 30 km and a solid state memory recorded up to 120 GB of images for downloading when the satellite passed over the Spacecraft Control Centre at Bangalore or ISTRAC stations at Lucknow, Mauritius, Bears Lake in Russia and Biak in Indonesia. Cartosat 1's sun-synchronous orbit crossed the equator at a local time of 10:30. The spacecraft was 3-axis stabilised using reaction wheels, magnetic torquers and hydrazine thrusters. 1100 W of eectrical power was provided by a 5 sq m solar array and two 24 Ah Ni-Cd batteries. Mission life was 5 years. Launch delayed from February, late April. The multispectral satellite had a 2.5-meter resolution camera.

2006 July 10 - 12:08 GMT - Launch Vehicle: GSLV. GSLV-F02 FAILURE: One of the liquid-fueled strap-on motors failed to develop thrust. By 40 seconds after launch the GSLV had veered outside of the launch corridor and the destruct signal was sent. Insat 4C Mass: 2,168 kg (4,779 lb). Spacecraft: Insat 3. Agency: ISRO.

2007 April 23 - 10:00 GMT - Launch Vehicle: PSLV. PSLV-CA PSLV-C8 AGILE Mass: 352 kg (776 lb). Spacecraft: AGILE. Agency: ASI. Perigee: 523 km (324 mi). Apogee: 553 km (343 mi). Inclination: 2.50 deg. Period: 95.40 min. The PSLV-C8 launch vehicle flew for the first time in a light configuration with no strap-on motors and a Dual Launch Adapter. The Italian gamma-ray observatory satellite (Astrorivelatore Gamma ad Imagini Leggero) carried the GRID 0.3-200 MeV wide-field gamma ray camera and the Super-AGILE 15-45 keV detector hard X-ray detector.