ASLV

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SLV

Height:	24m
Weight:	41,000 kg
Diameter:	1m - 0.66 m
Payload:	150 kg
Orbit:	LEO 400 km

Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV), was a 5-stage solid propellant rocket with the capability of placing a 150 kg satellite into LEO. This project was started by the Indian space research organisation (ISRO) during the early 1980s to develop technologies needed for a payload to be placed into a geostationary orbit. Its design is based on Satellite Launch Vehicle. ISRO did not have sufficient funds for both the PSLV programme and the ASLV programme at the same time and this lead to the shutting down of the ASLV programme. The payloads of ASLV were Stretched Rohini Satellites.

[edit] Launch log

Version	Date of Launch	Launch Location	Payload	Mission Status
3 D1	24 March 1987	Sriharikota	SROSS A, 150 Kg	Failure; First stage did not ignite after strap-on burnout.
3 D2	12 July 1988	Sriharikota	SROSS-B, 150 Kg	Failure.
3 D3	20 May 1992	Sriharikota	SROSS-C, 106 Kg	Partial Success.
3 D4	04 May 1994	Sriharikota	SROSS-C2, 113 Kg	Success.