Isro's satellite mission fails due to faulty PSLV

ISRO on Sunday failed to put its earth observation satellite in orbit after its trusted PSLV rocket developed a fault minutes after launch from the spaceport here.

- Press Trust of India

SRIHARIKOTA: ISRO on Sunday failed to put its earth observation satellite in orbit after its trusted PSLV rocket developed a fault minutes after launch from the spaceport here.

In ISRO's 101st mission from the spaceport here, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C61) had a text-book lift off at 5:59 am, only to experience an anomaly in the 12th minute of the flight.

"Today we targeted the 101st launch from Sriharikota, the PSLV-C61 EOS-09 mission. The PSLV is a four-stage vehicle and up to the second stage, the performance was normal. The third stage motor started perfectly but during the functioning of the third stage we are seeing an observation and the mission could not be accomplished," Indian Space Research Chairman V Narayanan said.

He said there was a fall in the chamber pressure of the motor case and the mission could not be accomplished.

"We are studying the entire performance, we shall come back at the earliest," Narayanan said post the unsuccessful launch.