PSLV-C39 attempted to launch the IRNSS-1H navigation satellite for India's regional satellite system but suffered ISRO's first failure in 24 years: the payload fairing failed to separate, trapping IRNSS-1H inside and leaving it non-functional.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- GSTO
- Geosynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 18th
- of 27 PSLV XL flights
- Date and time
- 31 August 2017, 13:30 UTC
- Rocket
- PSLV XL
- Builder
- ISRO
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2017-051
- Launches in 2017
- 54th of 90
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