ISRO's satellite was unable to be sent into space! What happened in this mission?
The ISRO's 101st mission has failed. ISRO's rocket launched on Sunday morning to place the EOS-09 satellite in space. But the satellite was not replaced from the rocket in mid-air. Following that, the controversy began about why the mission failed. ISRO head V Narayanan described the failure reason.
ISRO stated the ISRO rocket launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 5:59 am on Sunday as scheduled. The first two stages went off without issues, but the third stage had a fault. In this stage, the rocket was to put the artificial satellite in a certain orbit in space using solid fuel. But the pressure needed for that was subsequently discovered to be far less.
The ISRO chief stated, "Today we tried launching the EOS-09 satellite. There were four stages in the launch process. Two stages went as planned. But in the third stage, we saw that the mission will not be fulfilled. We are investigating the entire issue. We will contact you shortly."
ISRO's EOS-09 satellite has a weight of 1,696 kg. The satellite was meant to be put in the orbit of 524 km (Sun-synchronous Polar Orbit). However, during the third phase of the mission, it was found that there was a mechanical issue in the motor utilized. ISRO has been sending different satellites since 2017 via PSLV rocket. Up until now, this rocket has been utilized in 63 flights. Three missions are failed entirely among them. The ISRO engineers are researching why this issue has occurred. A committee has already been constituted to study the failure.
