India's first fully indigenous PSLV, flying as PSLV-C1, suffered a fourth-stage propellant-regulator anomaly that left the IRS-1D remote-sensing satellite in a lower-than-planned orbit; onboard thrusters later raised the perigee, but the mission was classified a partial failure.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 12 PSLV flights
- Date and time
- 29 September 1997, 04:47 UTC
- Rocket
- PSLV
- Builder
- ISRO
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1997-057
- Launches in 1997
- 59th of 89
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