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ISRO is launching the PSLV-C62 mission on 12 January at 10:17 hours IST from the First Launch Pad at India's spaceport in Sriharikota. This is the first rocket launch of 2026 by ISRO, the 64th flight of the PSLV, and the fifth flight of the PSLV-DL configuration, that uses a pair of strap-on boosters. The primary passenger on board is the EOS-N1 satellite of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), dubbed 'Anvesha'. Once deployed, the satellite will form a trinity of satellites with strategic applications for the DRDO, joining the previously launched Kautila and Sindu-Netra satellites in Earth orbit. The hyperspectral satellite will be able to monitor border regions and identify camouflaged vehicles and buildings based on the spectral properties of the materials used.
ISRO will be livestreaming the launch and Doordarshan will be broadcasting it. The general public has also been invited to witness the launch at the spaceport. The pre-launch programming will commence at 09:48 hours IST, about half an hour before liftoff. There are 15 other payloads on the launch vehicle. These include the compact space telescope MIRA indigenously developed by Hyderabad-based Eon Space Labs packed onto the EOS-1 CubeSat by TakeMe2Space, that has also included an on-board AI processing payload, AyulSat by Bengaluru-based Orbitaid to demonstrate a satellite servicing port for transferring data, power and fuel, the Orbital Temple collaborative artwork project, and the Munal student satellite for Nepal. The rest of the passengers are academic satellites, or meant for use by the amateur radio community.
ISRO will not be using a PSLV Orbital Experiment Module (POEM) on this flight, that hosts payloads for technology demonstrations by industries and academia. Instead the upper stage of the rocket will be returning to the Earth and burning up in the atmosphere. The last passenger to be deployed will be the Kestrel Initial Demonstrator cargo capsule for Spanish New Space Startup Orbital Paradigm. This is a reentry module designed to complete the space logistics chain and return experiments and hardware flown to space back to the Earth. The demonstration mission itself has payloads from UK, France and Germany. Orbital Paradigm will only be collecting data during the reentry, and will not be attempting to recover the capsule, which is expected to disintegrate in the atmosphere.
