Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle

ASLV liftoff
FunctionSmall-lift launch vehicle
ManufacturerISRO
Country of originIndia
Size
Height23.5 m (77 ft)
Diameter1 m (3 ft 3 in)
Mass41,000 kg (90,000 lb)
Capacity
Payload to 400 km LEO
Mass150 kg (330 lb)
Associated rockets
FamilySLV, PSLV
Launch history
StatusRetired
Launch sitesSatish Dhawan Space Centre
Total launches4
Success(es)1
Failure(s)2
Partial failure(s)1
First flight24 March 1987
Last flight4 May 1994
Type of passengers/cargoSROSS
First stage
Powered by2 solid
Maximum thrust502.6 kN (113,000 lbf) each
Specific impulse253 seconds (2.48 km/s)
Burn time49 seconds
PropellantSolid
Second stage
Powered by1 solid
Maximum thrust702.6 kN (158,000 lbf)
Specific impulse259 seconds (2.54 km/s)
Burn time45 seconds
PropellantSolid
Third stage
Powered by1 solid
Maximum thrust304 kN (68,000 lbf)
Specific impulse276 seconds (2.71 km/s)
Burn time36 seconds
PropellantSolid
Fourth stage
Powered by1 solid
Maximum thrust90.7 kN (20,400 lbf)
Specific impulse277 seconds (2.72 km/s)
Burn time45 seconds
PropellantSolid
Fifth stage
Powered by1 solid
Maximum thrust35 kN (7,900 lbf)
Specific impulse281 seconds (2.76 km/s)
Burn time33 seconds
PropellantSolid

The Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle or Advanced Satellite Launch Vehicle (also known as ASLV) was a small-lift launch vehicle five-stage solid-fuel rocket developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to place 150 kg satellites into LEO.[1] This project was started by India during the early 1980s to develop technologies needed for a payload to be placed into a geostationary orbit.[2][3] Its design was based on Satellite Launch Vehicle.[4] ISRO did not have sufficient funds for both the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle programme and the ASLV programme at the same time and the ASLV programme was terminated after the initial developmental flights.[2] The payloads of ASLV were Stretched Rohini Satellites.[4]

  1. ^ "ASLV". Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Space Launch Vehicles - ASLV". Archived from the original on 2009-08-29. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
  3. ^ Menon, Amarnath (15 April 1987). "Setback in the sky". India Today. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  4. ^ a b "ASLV". Archived from the original on June 28, 2002.