Chennai, 12th August 2021: In the midst of preparations for the celebration of independence, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) wanted to deploy Earth observation satellite EOS through GSLV-F10 from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota at 5:43 am today. But this mission could not be successful due to a technical fault in the cryogenic engine.

“GSLV-F10 launch took place today at 0543 Hrs IST as scheduled. Performance of the first and second stages was normal. However, Cryogenic Upper Stage ignition did not happen due to technical anomaly. The mission couldn’t be accomplished as intended”, ISRO tweeted.

ISRO Chairman K Sivan said ISRO’s GSLV-F10/EOS-03 mission could not be fully completed due to technical difficulties observed in the cryogenic stage of the launch. India was going to benefit greatly from its successful launch. The 26-hour countdown for the launch of the earth observation satellite EOS-03 aboard the GSLV-F10 rocket began at Sriharikota on Wednesday.

This is the first failure in an Indian space launch since 2017. Prior to this, 14 consecutive missions of ISRO have been successful. This was ISRO’s second launch in 2021 after the launch of Brazil’s geo-observation satellite Amazonia-1 and 18 other small satellites in February.

ISRO successfully launched GSLV-F10 this morning at 5.43 am. All the stages were completed according to the stipulated time. But in the end, before the separation of EOS-3, there was some technical fault in the cryogenic engine, due to which ISRO stopped getting the data. After this, the ISRO chief announced that this mission partially failed.

The launch, which took place today, was originally scheduled to take place in April or May this year but was postponed due to the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The countdown for the GSLV-F10/EOS-03 mission had begun at 3:43 am on Wednesday at the Satish Dhawan Space Center. The launch took place on Thursday at 5:43 am from the second launch pad at Sriharikota, about 100 km from Chennai.

This observation satellite was to provide real-time images of the country and its borders four-five times a day, which will send key data related to weather and environmental change. It would have also enabled quick monitoring of natural calamities and agriculture, afforestation, water resources and providing disaster warnings, cyclone monitoring, cloudburst etc. Was. This satellite was to serve for 10 years.