ISRO's GISAT mission 'failed', glimpses of launch of EOS-03 from Sriharikota - In Pics

Indian space programme suffered a serious setback on Thursday (August 12) as its GSLV-F10 rocket failed midway in its mission of putting into orbit the Geo-Imaging Satellite-1 (GISAT-1). 

The 57.10 metres tall, 416-tonne Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F10) lifted off from the second launch pad at 5.43 a.m. See pics

 

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The GSLV-F10 is a three-stage/engine rocket. The core of the first stage is fired with solid fuel and the four strap-on motors by liquid fuel. The second is the liquid fuel and the third is the cryogenic engine.

 

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Everything went off well as planned till the cryogenic engine got fired at about five minutes into the rocket`s flight.

 

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At about six minutes into the rocket`s flight and soon after the cryogenic engine started operation, the mission control centre at the space port here tensed up as there was no data coming from the rocket.

 

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One of the ISRO officials announced that there was a performance anomaly in the cryogenic engine.

Announcing the mission failure, K. Sivan, Chairman, ISRO said: "The mission cannot be fully accomplished because of a technical anomaly observed in the cryogenic stage."

 

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