Maiden flight of India's SLV-3 from Sriharikota carrying the Rohini Technology Payload (RTP), a ~35 kg vehicle-performance test satellite. First Indian orbital launch attempt; second-stage thrust-vector control failed and the stack fell short of orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 4 SLV-3 flights
- Date and time
- 10 August 1979, 02:28 UTC
- Rocket
- SLV-3
- Builder
- ISRO
- Launch site
- SLV-3 Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 1979
- 75th of 110