Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas turns sour for ISRO


Holiday Birth turned sour for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the nation as a whole and satellite geosynchronous launch vehicle (GSLV - F06) start failed. This is the second consecutive failure of the launch vehicle, the last on April 15, 2010.

Saturday, slightly more than two minutes later to remove the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, about 100 km from Chennai, the missile veered off the road and exploded in the air. Observers of the rockets steep, apparently in the Bay of Bengal. While the latter issue was launched with the engine cooled, and this time the trouble occurred shortly after the first stage and a large part of the cryogenic engine was to be fired. Scientists have not yet been an official explanation for the lack of grants.

To be used after the last launch vehicle (D3), which was the first indigenous cryogenic engine, not on April 15, 2010, ISRO decided to drive to buy pre-chilled Russian to launch on Saturday. The GSLV - F06 to start the day Monday, but was postponed after the discovery of leaks in the engine cooling engineers that could be catastrophic. On Saturday, the car exploded out of the spaceport in Sriharikota 16:04. The 2300 kg satellite to 19 minutes later injected. The satellite used by broadcast television, and telemedicine for distance education. But soon after the separation of the first phase in 148 seconds, and failed this task.

The ISRO's troubled past with the launch vehicle, with only two of the launch of seven so far claimed complete success. Although ISRO claims that four launches were successful, to invite independent observers at least two of them either failed or partially successful. The ISRO when it comes to the launch of his horse PSLV, 15 consecutive successes.

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