The anomaly resembled the events preceding the failure of the PSLV-C61 mission on May 18, 2025. ISRO’s PSLV-C61 mission was carrying the EOS-09 satellite. After the C61 mission failed, Dr. Narayanan constituted a Failure Analysis Committee (FAC) to look into the causes of the mishap. Although the PSLV-C61 FAC submitted its report to the PMO, the PMO hasn’t cleared it for public release yet. On November 15, 2025, during an unrelated lecture, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre director A. Rajarajan had attributed the loss of the PSLV-C61 mission to a “slight manufacturing error”.

Source: The Hindu January 17, 2026 22:59 UTC