PSLV-D3 launched IRS-P3, an Indian remote-sensing satellite for Earth resource monitoring that also carried the Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE), into sun-synchronous orbit; it operated for over eight years.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 922 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 12 PSLV flights
- Date and time
- 21 March 1996, 04:53 UTC
- Rocket
- PSLV
- Builder
- ISRO
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1996-017
- Launches in 1996
- 18th of 77
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