NSF - NASASpaceflight.com@NASASpaceflightWaiting for words, but it looks like it failed at the end of third stage flight. You always need to be careful as it could have been telementry, but you can see it's in a big spin on the camera on the controller's screen.
ISRO Spaceflight@ISROSpaceflight⚠️ The vehicle appears to have lost control over its orientation during 3rd stage action.This is the second consecutive PSLV mission where ISRO has experienced an issue with PSLV's 3rd stage.Awaiting more information, but the situation is not looking good at present.
Jonathan McDowell@planet4589Looks like the PSLV launch may have failed. Webcast showed stage 3 loss of attitude at T+6m18s, 11s prior to scheduled end of burn, with stage rapidly tumbling. No official announcement yet, but no commentary for past 10 min and webcast just cut off9:09 PM · Jan 11, 2026·
Jonathan McDowell@planet4589·Replying to @planet4589Stage 3/4/payloads likely will impact just uprange of the planned stage 3 impact area, perhaps around 77E 24S in the southern Indian Ocean
Jonathan McDowell@planet4589Replying to @planet4589Still just posssible it's corrupted telemetry data and not an actual failure, but I doubt it.
Ryan Caton@dpoddolphinproIf confirmed, this would be the PSLV’s 2nd consecutive failure, again caused by Stage 3 - very out-of-character for a rocket with a 94.4% success rate.
Jay Keegan@_jaykeegan_Not the way ISRO wanted to start the year, especially after the previous PSLV launch also resulted in a third stage anomaly.
Jonathan McDowell@planet4589ISRO PSLV-C62 failure essentially confirmed. They said they saw a deviation in the flight path and they're analysing the data.9:15 PM · Jan 11, 2026
00:04 The PSLV vehicle is a four stage vehicle.00:09 With two solid stages and two liquid stages, the performance of the vehicle up to the end of close to the end of third stage was as expected. 00:20 close to the end of the third stage, we are seeing little more disturbance in the vehicle.00:30 And subsequently there is a deviation of sort in the flight path. 00:35 We are analyzing the data and we shall come back at the earliest. 00:40 Thank you.
I have attached a cropped in clip of the PS4 onboard camera, showing the vehicle rotating. Quality is the best I can pull from the source feed.
