Pressure on India's space race after satellite launch failure
發佈日期: 2025-05-18 16:24
TVB News
India's space agency failed to put a satellite into orbit after a technical fault on the launch vehicle. The procedure ran into trouble in the third stage due to a fall in chamber pressure.
The radar satellite was designed to provide images under all weather conditions.
Initially, the observation satellite launched successfully from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota before running into trouble midair minutes later.
The Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation V. Narayanan said: "Up to the second stage the performance was quite normal, third stage motor started perfectly. But during the functioning of the third stage, we saw an observation and the mission could not be accomplished."
"After analysis we shall come back," Narayanan added.
The satellite has been lost and was the ninth mission in India's Earth Observation Satellite Series and second of 2025.
Weighing 2,000 kilograms, the EOS-09 had been due to deploy from the launch vehicle 18 minutes after lift-off.
