Rocket With Indian Satellite Explodes After Launch
- Posted on December 25, 2010 at 2:47pm by
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NEW DELHI (AP) — A rocket carrying an Indian communication satellite exploded just after liftoff Saturday in the second launch failure for India’s space agency this year.
Television images showed the rocket exploding in smoke and fire just after it launched from the Sriharikota space center in Andhra Pradesh state. It was carrying a GSAT-5P communication satellite into orbit.
The vehicle developed an error 47 seconds after liftoff and lost command, leading to a higher angle in the flight, said K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization.
“That caused a higher stress, breaking up the vehicle,” Radhakrishnan told reporters.
In April, a similar rocket on a developmental flight plunged into the Bay of Bengal. The ISRO said its rotor seized and turbine casing ruptured, probably due to excessive pressure and thermal stresses.
Yashpal, a retired Indian scientist and independent commentator, said he was very disappointed by Saturday’s failure, but other countries too have experienced such problems.
“I hope it’s just one of those things,” Yashpal, who uses one name, told reporters.
India is planning its first manned space flight in 2016.
An Indian satellite launched in 2008 to orbit the moon was abandoned last year after communication links snapped and scientists lost control of the satellite.
India is the fifth country after United States, Russia, China and France to enter the commercial satellite launch market.
The country has sought to convert its rise as an economic power — built on a thriving high-tech sector — into global clout in other areas.
Since 1994, India’s space program has launched a number of Indian-made satellites. It’s also been able to launch nine successful space flights consecutively.
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Comments (61)
byehlik
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 9:56pmNO DISASSEMBLE! #5 is alive! Sure glad we have so many tech jobs in India supporting what little High Tech jobs are still here in the US. Outsourcing, is a bad idea. Be prepaired.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 9:03pmHow hard can it be to get a rocket into space? China did it!
Report Post »Chris
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 8:01pmThis just proves once again that it isn’t as easy as it looks. The major spacefaring nations sometimes make it look easy because they have been at it so long and a lot of their developmental failures occurred a long time ago. There is an expected loss rate for unmanned launches that assumes that you will lose a certain percentage of launches. That is why people buy and sell insurance for satellites. Manned flights have to be planned with a much smaller failure rate which is a large part of the reason why they are so much more expensive. And, no matter how careful you are if you fly a vehicle long enough it is pretty likely that it will find new ways to bite you as it ages.
Report Post »Constitutional
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 8:30pmThere are too many satellites out there anyway. They should concentrate on their cow problem.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 7:51pmspendy bottle rocket..
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 7:09pmWell, lets see now; with the US out of the space biz…having to hitch a ride with our good ole buddies the Russkies, to our own damn space station and all, I guess India feels it has as good a chance as any at the big pinwheel.
Report Post »shipwreckkelley
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 7:05pmBrought to you by the same people who is introducing Tata motors to the world perhaps.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 6:32pmNo worries, it will come back as a ultra lite in the next life
Report Post »Sam
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 6:27pmAtleast they are going by “failure is stepping stone to success” unlike the Chinese who say “stealing is stepping stone to success” or Pakistanis who say “Chinese are stepping stone to success”.
Have we already forgotten the space shuttle explosions ? People here have long term memory issues it seems.
Report Post »Politicus
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 6:12pmIt made it part way. As Liberals will tell you: “Its the intention that counts.” So this was a very successful launch.
Report Post »Politicus
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 6:08pmIt made it part way. As Liberals say: “Is the intention that matters!”
Report Post »mattp28
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 6:01pmWhen at first you dont succeed try try again.
Report Post »brbrem
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 5:58pmI love the rocking snowman in the upper left hand corner while the rocket explodes! Merry Christmas!
Report Post »NeoKong
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 5:38pmPashtun…we have a problem.
Report Post »5410amh
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 5:31pmAnother one bites the dust! I mean really let the nations that have space capability handle this stuff.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 9:15pmTake a look at America’s early space program.
Report Post »walker1812
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 5:01pmkicks are for trids ….Now that’s an old one!
The Indians had better stick to the help desk gig.
I guess that doesn’t work all that well either.
Report Post »Tightie Rightie
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 5:34pmI’m old… what’s left to say? :P
Report Post »BonnerFriar
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 12:10amIf you cannot connect to the internet press 1…if your rocket is crashing press 2.
Report Post »DeltaHawk
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 4:28pmOH NO, Now I won’t be able to call a help center LMAO!
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 5:37pmNow That… was funny! I snickered at kicks for trids too, I hadn’t heard that in a long time! Good call!
Report Post »Tightie Rightie
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 6:14pm“Thank you for calling USA Credit… My name Peggy”
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 4:12pmmaybe if they tied a big stick to the side of it?
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 3:35pmSilly rabbit, tricks are for kids.
Report Post »Tightie Rightie
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 4:07pmAnd here I thought it was kicks are for trids ;)
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 3:30pmWhat’s this button for? OHHHHHHHH that’s not good!
Report Post »Col. HawK
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 3:27pmThats too bad… hope they find the ‘mistake’ that caused it…. trial and error I guess?
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 3:20pmAnd they have a nuclear program? Should anyone be worried? They might just blow themselves up!
Report Post »silveracer44
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 10:22pmWe had nukes when the Challenger exploded.
Report Post »ARIZONA VETERAN
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 3:11pmlets pack the next one with muzzys………..
Report Post »tranquilrider
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 10:47pmBrilliant. Wow!!!!!!
Report Post »Tightie Rightie
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 3:04pmYech! Looks too much like Challenger. I’d be re-thinking the whole 2016 thing.
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 3:04pmThey should ask China for Aid. We can no longer help. The US is no longer in the space race, thanks to the anointed one Obama the long legged jack daddy.
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:55pmBut NASA can tell them all about how wonderful India’s Muslims would be as pilots.
Report Post »Jul 5, or shortly before that, Charles Bolden said the following:
“When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering,”
RobertCA
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 2:49pm& they’re planning on a manned space flight in 2016 ….hmmmmmmmmmmm
Report Post »Aldo_the_Apche
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 2:56pmkind of a bummer for india
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 3:19pmAnother one bites the dust, and I am glad that I am not going to be the man.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 3:31pmNope, won’t want to be that first man in space after their recent failures – hope they pay him will and have insurance for his family!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 4:09pmok whos first?
Report Post »Dale
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 4:23pmRobertCA;
I have several candidates I would propose.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 5:48pmAnyone think that Mr Obama was over there to claim he developed space travel in the way Al Gore claims to have invented the internet? Or maybe he appologized for the fact big bad Americans went into space just after the Russians did and we are again to blame for the worlds space problems?
Or will there be another apology tour coming in the near future?
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tower7femacamp
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 7:14pmI am sure US or China had nothing to do with this .
Report Post »Caffeinated Texan
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 8:29pmTower: I’m sure you are right. There is no real reason for the U.S. or China to sabotage an Indian rocket. Oh, you were being facetius? Well, that’s just because you are a dolt.
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 9:16pmNice fireworks.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 11:12pmJust part of the learning curve. Food for thought: China and India each turn out over 150,000 engineering grads annually to the US’s 70,000. China and India each have an agresssive space agenda and we are renting seats on the Soyuz at $50 million a pop. Hmmmm..
Report Post »Squ33
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:57amWhere there’s a will, there’s a way…look at the U.S.’s space flight program. We had our share of faliures (Apollo 1 and 13, and Shuttle’s Challenger and Columbia), as well as successes (Apollo 11, Freedom 7, etc.)
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 10:06amKind of wonder what their nuke delivery systems are like.
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