Slow recovery: On the ISRO’s GSLV-F18 mission
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With the successful launch of the GSLV-F18 mission and the NVS-03 satellite’s healthy status, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is on course to heave a sigh of relief.
Its last 18 months have been constrained by the consequences of two launch failures involving PSLV rockets, which share some of their design aspects with GSLV, to the extent that the F18 mission was only the second successful launch of 2026.
If the NVS-03 satellite is successfully manoeuvred into its final intended orbital slot and commissioned, ISRO will also have pulled off a rescue mission for the ‘Navigation with Indian Constellation’ (NavIC) programme, which has been at least one functional satellite short for the last six months and thus unable to meet its primary purpose of providing standalone positioning services over the Indian subcontinent.
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