ASLV-D2 carried India's SROSS-2 satellite, fitted with a West German MEOSS earth-imaging scanner and a gamma-ray burst experiment, from Sriharikota. A first-stage control-gain problem kept the rocket from reaching orbit, destroying the satellite in ISRO's second Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle development flight.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 4 ASLV flights
- Date and time
- 13 July 1988, 09:18 UTC
- Rocket
- ASLV
- Builder
- ISRO
- Launch site
- SLV-3 Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1988
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