'INSAT-4C failure needs careful investigation'
Monday's INSAT-4C launch failure needs "careful investigation", said Space Commission Member Prof Roddam Narasimha who does not believe there is something fundamentally wrong with the GSLV rocket.
By PTI |
BANGALORE: Monday's INSAT-4C launch failure needs "careful investigation", said Space Commission Member Prof Roddam Narasimha who does not believe there is something fundamentally wrong with the GSLV rocket.
"I am sure the INSAT-4C failure needs careful investigation", Prof Narasimha, also former Director of National Aerospace Laboratories, told PTI here. "I don't feel there is something fundamentally wrong with GSLV since the previous two launches were successful".
"Every failure is a bit of a setback", he said but added "ISRO's record as a whole is very good".
Sources in Bangalore-based ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) said the cost of building INSAT-4C, which was equipped with 12 ku-band transponders, was in the region of Rs 100 crore, while another Rs 150 crore was spent on GSLV.
Monday's launch was the second operational flight of GSLV, the first being orbiting of Edusat in September 2004. Today's was the first ever launch of an INSAT-class satellite for commercial gains from home soil.
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