New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- Spanish spaceflight company Orbital Paradigm's KID capsule was the lone survivor of the failed Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission that saw its time-tested PSLV rocket suffer a malfunction midflight.

Hours after ISRO declared an anomaly, Orbital Paradigm posted on social media that its KID capsule had survived miraculously.

"Our KID capsule, against all odds, separated from PSLV C62, switched on, and transmitted data. We're reconstructing trajectory. Full report will come," Orbital Paradigm posted on X.

KID was one of the 16 payloads of the PSLV C62 mission and survived the mishap long enough to separate from the launch vehicle and transmit data before crash-landing on Earth.

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