Key Features of LMLV

• Design: Improved version of the NGLV (Next Generation Launch Vehicle).
  • As tall as a 40-storey building.
• Purpose: Lunar missions, including India's first human mission to the Moon planned by 2040.
• Payload: It can carry 80 tonnes to low Earth orbit (LEO) or approximately 27 tonnes to the Moon.
• 3 Stages: Liquid propellent for its first two stages and a cryogenic propellant for its third stage.

ISRO's Key Launch Vehicles and Capabilities

• PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle): ISRO's workhorse, a third-generation vehicle with liquid stages, capable of launching satellites into Sun-synchronous Polar Orbit, LEO, Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) (e.g., Chandrayaan-1, Mars Orbiter Mission).
• GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle): A fourth-generation, three-stage vehicle designed to launch 2.0-ton class satellites into GTO for communication satellites.
• LVM 3: A heavy-lift, three-stage vehicle capable of carrying 4-ton class satellites to GTO or about 10 tons to LEO (Chandrayaan-2 and 3).
  • It is proposed to be used for Bharatiya Antariksh Station.
• SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle): Three-stage, all-solid propulsion vehicle designed for launching Mini, Micro, or Nano satellites (10 to 500 kg mass).