The core-alone PSLV, without strap-on boosters, for lighter payloads. It flies from 2007, launching Italy's AGILE, Israel's TECSAR and many small foreign satellites, and in December 2024 SPADEX, India's first docking experiment in orbit.
- Launches
- 18
- Success rate
- 100%
- 0 failures
- Builder
- ISRO
- Height
- 44 m
- Diameter
- 2.8 m
- Stages
- 4
- Propellants
- Solid, UDMH / N2O4, MMH / MON
- Payload to LEO
- 3,800 kg
- Payload to SSO
- 1,092 kg
- Payload to GTO
- 1,200 kg
Launches per year
PSLV-CA
Other PSLV rockets
Show as table
| Year | Launches | PSLV-CA |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 |
| 2008 | 3 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 3 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 |
| 2015 | 4 | 1 |
| 2016 | 6 | 0 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 |
| 2018 | 4 | 2 |
| 2019 | 5 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |