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Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh connected Saturday said that the anomaly successful the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has been resolved.
Dr. Singh said connected the sidelines of the Research, Industry, Start-up and Entrepreneurship (RISE) Conclave 2026 successful Bengaluru, that the nationalist level adept committee constituted to reappraisal the crushed for anomaly successful PSLV Vehicle has submitted its study and the anomaly has been detected.
“The study has travel retired and the anomaly has been detected. However we cannot stock that (reason for the anomaly) connected a nationalist platform. But experts are moving connected it, which has been resolved and precise soon we volition beryllium backmost connected the track,” Dr. Singh said replying to a query by The Hindu.
It tin beryllium recalled that the PSLV which is referred to arsenic the workhorse of the Indian Space Research Organisations (ISRO) had suffered 2 backmost to backmost setbacks.
On January 12, 2026 the PSLV-C62 ngo carrying the EOS-N1 world reflection outer failed to decorativeness its intended trajectory aft an anomaly was detected during the extremity of the 3rd signifier of the motorboat vehicle.
On May 18, 2025, portion ISRO attempted to motorboat the EOS-09 outer aboard the PSLV-C61 mission, it couldn’t implicit it. It was besides owed to an anomaly successful the 3rd signifier of the rocket.
Following this a National level adept committee was constituted which included K. Vijay Raghavan, erstwhile Principal Scientific Advisor, and erstwhile ISRO Chairman S. Somanath.
Dr. Singh said that the 2 backmost to backmost failures of the PSLV should not beryllium seen arsenic a nonaccomplishment but a setback and learning experience.
“There is nary specified happening arsenic nonaccomplishment successful a abstraction mission. It is sometimes delayed, sometimes a setback which really is simply a learning experience. Even if you instrumentality it that way, if you telephone each unsuccessful oregon fractional palmy effort arsenic a nonaccomplishment statistically our fig of alleged failures is overmuch lesser than the USA. Chandrayaan-3 and Mars Orbiter Mission were palmy successful their precise archetypal effort truthful that mode we person a amended statistical record,” Dr. Singh said.
ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan said that ISRO’s adjacent launch, which would beryllium the archetypal 1 since the PSLV nonaccomplishment successful January, would instrumentality spot adjacent month.
“We are gathering the rocket and whitethorn beryllium wrong a period we volition launch. The archetypal motorboat volition beryllium a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) ngo and subsequently we volition motorboat the PSLV,” Mr. Narayanan told The Hindu.
