The factors that led to the recent deferments in scheduled Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launches, for the missions planned under the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is purely due to technical reasons. In view of the failure observed in the PSLV-C62 mission, a National Level Expert Committee has been constituted to review the reason for anomaly in PSLV vehicle and recommend corrective measures. PSLV will return to flight after implementing the corrective actions. SSLV has successfully completed the developmental flights and handed over to NSIL and Industry for production and launch.

The Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) earth-observation initiative, and the upcoming climate and weather monitoring satellites are being executed by respective project teams of ISRO. The New Space India Limited (NSIL), a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) under the administrative control of the Department of Space is responsible for the commercial missions with active support of ISRO & Indian industry.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

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