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The following are a list of spacecraft with a mass greater than 8,000 kg (17,637 lb), or the top three to any other orbit including a planetary orbit, or the top three of a specific category of vehicle, or the heaviest vehicle from a specific nation. All numbers listed below for satellites use their mass at launch, if not otherwise stated.
A heavy-lift launch vehicle (HLV) is an orbital launch vehicle capable of lifting payloads between 20,000 to 50,000 kg (44,000 to 110,000 lb) (by NASA classification) or between 20,000 to 100,000 kilograms (44,000 to 220,000 lb) (by Russian classification) [1] into low Earth orbit (LEO). [2]
UK-DMC 3 and two other foreign satellites launched. Heaviest ever commercial launch mission undertaken by ISRO. [34] [35] 27 28 September 2015 PSLV-XL: C30 Success Launch of India's first dedicated astronomy satellite Astrosat and ISRO's first launch of US satellites. [36] 28 16 December 2015 PSLV-CA: C29 Success Commercial launch of 6 ...
A super heavy-lift launch vehicle is a rocket that can lift to low Earth orbit a "super heavy payload", which is defined as more than 50 metric tons (110,000 lb) [1] [2] by the United States and as more than 100 metric tons (220,000 lb) by Russia. [3]
Vikram-S, India's first privately built rocket was launched on 18 November 2022 by Skyroot Aerospace from Sriharikota. [2] [3] The first mission of the rocket launch has been designated as 'Prarambh', meaning beginning. [4] As a tribute the rocket has been named after Vikram Sarabhai, who is considered as the father of India's space programme ...
The 33 Raptor rocket engines affixed to the bottom of the Super Heavy rocket booster are seen firing as SpaceX launched its fifth flight test of Starship on October 13.
Launched 10 days after the successful landing of ISRO's Moon mission, Chandrayaan-3, this mission carried the Aditya-L1 Mission satellite, the first Indian satellite dedicated to studying the Sun. Launch was successful and achieved its intended orbit nearly an hour later, and separated from its fourth stage. [37]
After several delays and a sub-orbital test flight on 18 December 2014, ISRO successfully conducted the first orbital test launch of LVM3 on 5 June 2017 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. [ 23 ] Total development cost of project was ₹ 2,962.78 crore (equivalent to ₹ 45 billion or US$520 million in 2023). [ 24 ]