<Dl> <Dd> Status: Decommissioned </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Status: Decommissioned </Dd> <P> The Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle, usually known by its abbreviation ASLV was a 5 - stage solid propellant rocket with the capability of placing a 150 kg satellite into Low Earth Orbit . This project was started by the ISRO during the early 1980s to develop technologies needed for a payload to be placed into a geostationary orbit . Its design was based on Satellite Launch Vehicle . The first launch test was held in 1987, and after that 3 others followed in 1988, 1992 and 1994, out of which only 2 were successful, before it was decommissioned . </P> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Status: Active </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl>

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