PSLV-D1, the first flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, carried the IRS-1E remote-sensing satellite. A software error in the guidance computer's pitch control loop caused loss of attitude control, and the rocket crashed into the Bay of Bengal about 12 minutes after liftoff.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 12 PSLV flights
- Date and time
- 20 September 1993, 05:12 UTC
- Rocket
- PSLV
- Builder
- ISRO
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1993
- 63rd of 83