{"id":87112,"date":"2010-04-16T22:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/isro-cryogenic-launch-fails-gsat-4-lost\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T22:32:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:32:21","slug":"isro-cryogenic-launch-fails-gsat-4-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/isro-cryogenic-launch-fails-gsat-4-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO Cryogenic Launch Fails; GSAT-4 Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-16-10] The launch of <strong>Indian Space Research Organization<\/strong>\u2019s (ISRO) GSLV-D3 rocket carrying the GSAT-4 communications satellite has failed due to a third-stage engine malfunction that resulted in total loss of control of the spacecraft, the ISRO announced April 15.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The engine failure happened just minutes after blastoff, which caused the rocket to tumble uncontrollably back to Earth. \u201cDetailed analysis of the data will be carried out to find out the reason for non-ignition of two engines\u201d G. Radhakrishnan, head of ISRO, said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ISRO\u2019s GSLV-D3 mission aimed to debut an Indian-made cryogenic engine in efforts to expand India\u2019s satellite launch business to about $120 million a year and end the country\u2019s dependence on Russian-built cryogenic engines for lifting heavy payloads. The GSAT-4 satellite carried a multi-beam Ka-band bent pipe and regenerative transponder and navigation payload in multiple bands to guide civil and military aircraft.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is the second major failure for ISRO within the past 12 months, after its $82 million unmanned Chandrayaan-1 mission ended last August after ISRO failed to restore contact with the spacecraft.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Radhakrishnan said that ISRO plans to spend the next year recovering from these setbacks.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">ISRO Plans to Launch Satellite Phone Services in 2011<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 3, 2010<br \/>\n[02-03-10] The Indian Space  Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to launch a satellite in 2011  that will provide S-band satellite phone services in India, ISRO  announced Feb. 2.   The organization is building the satellite\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">ISRO Completes S-200 Booster Static Firing Test<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJanuary 26, 2010<br \/>\n[01-25-10] The Indian Space  Research Organization (ISRO) has successfully conducted a static test of  the S-200, India s largest solid rocket booster, ISRO announced Jan.  25. The S-200, part of ISRO s GSLV-Mk 3 geosynchronous\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">ISRO Loses Chandrayaan-1<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSeptember 1, 2009<br \/>\n[09-01-09] The Indian Space  Research Organization (ISRO) abandoned the Chandrayaan-1 lunar-orbiting  satellite after scientists lost control of the satellite and failed to  revive communication, ISRO officials announced Aug. 31.  \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-16-10] The launch of Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO) GSLV-D3 rocket carrying the GSAT-4 communications satellite has failed due to a third-stage engine malfunction that resulted in total loss of control of the spacecraft, the ISRO announced April 15. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The engine failure happened just minutes after blastoff, which caused the rocket to tumble uncontrollably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}