On Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) suffered a major setback as their mission to put the state-of-art Geo Imagining Satellite (GISAT-1) failed.
Gisat-1, officially named as EOS-03 (Earth Observation Satellite 03), took off at 5.43 am as scheduled and the core stage burn out happened as planned, propelling the rocket in it's intended path. Second stage ignition also happened as planned two minutes later which was later confirmed by mission control some four minutes after the took off.
Following the second stage shut off, the cryogenic stage failed to ignite, resulting the mission to be termed as failure.
- After the mission ISRO Chairman K Sivan said "Due to technical anomaly in the cryogenic stage, the mission could not be fully accomplished."
ISRO are now said to form a Failure Analysis Committee (FAC) that will analyse the reasons for this anomaly.
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