India's latest Earth observation satellite mission suffered a setback on Sunday morning. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed that the EOS-09 mission "could not be accomplished" after the PSLV-C61 rocket launched at 5:59am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

"During the functioning of the third stage, we are seeing an observation and the mission could not be accomplished. After analysis, we shall come back," the ISRO chairman said.

The ISRO also posted on X about the development. "Today 101st launch was attempted, PSLV-C61 performance was normal till 2nd stage. Due to an observation in 3rd stage, the mission could not be accomplished."

The 1,696 kg EOS-09 satellite – designed to provide all-weather imaging using C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) – failed to reach its intended 524 km sun-synchronous polar orbit.