Indian satellite rocket exploded

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Indian satellite rocket explodes after lift-off.

BANGALORE, India (AFP) – An Indian space rocket carrying a communications satellite exploded Saturday after lifting off from southern India, live TV footage showed.

The rocket exploded in a plume of smoke and fire moments after taking off from the Sriharikota launch site, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the city of Chennai, state-owned Doordarshan TV showed.

The United News of India (UNI) said the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) veered from its intended flight-path and disintegrated seconds after lift-off.

The Christmas Day launch had originally been scheduled for December 20 but was postponed after engineers discovered a leak in one of the Russian-designed engines of the GSLV, the news agency added.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) officials who conducted the unsuccessful launch were not immediately available for comment.

UNI, quoting unnamed ISRO officials, said a technical snag caused the rocket to malfunction.

In July, an Indian rocket successfully put five satellites into orbit, three months after the country's space ambitions suffered a setback when a rocket crashed on lift-off.

India aims to launch its first manned space mission in 2016 and wants to grab a larger share of the multi-billion-dollar market for launching commercial satellites.

By ELICS• 29 Dec 2010 09:29
ELICS

Once russians had same plans, look they divided.... are you ready ???

are you ready india ???

By Arien• 27 Dec 2010 19:42
Arien

Cryspy the russian engine ditched, next time we will have our own :)

By heaven2009• 27 Dec 2010 16:57
heaven2009

Very good Elics(pataans)and cryspy(BD) ha ha our rocket science will take long.... time... and will emit thick colorless smoke be ready by open yr mouth to swallow, go and hv fantook and chew.

By anonymous• 27 Dec 2010 16:32
anonymous

exactly, rocket science ............. lol

did the team of scientist loudly say burrrrrrrrrrrrrr before testing ;)

By Arien• 27 Dec 2010 15:33
Arien

Cryspy it takes a while , rocket science dude lol

By ELICS• 27 Dec 2010 15:24
ELICS

No chance. Its a curse as their government try using money of one the poorest nations in whole world.

Proving what ???? insane

Definately they will fail again... they are to fail

By anonymous• 27 Dec 2010 15:10
anonymous

damn it

how long they will take to get success ;)

By Victoria5518• 27 Dec 2010 14:57
Victoria5518

deepb - LOL ... that slow!! darn...

By heaven2009• 27 Dec 2010 14:48
heaven2009

Again...? don worry, we will succeed our ultimate goal.we never bother about this failure. wait and watch Feb 2011 our success.

By deepb• 27 Dec 2010 14:48
deepb

No, it won't be tomorrow. Took him 3 days to copy paste article ( without source ofcourse). Now he needs to re-read it 4-5 times to try and understand, after which he will ask someone else to read and explain to him, which will take another few days of tutoring from that person. So I give it around 3 weeks before he republishes it.

By Victoria5518• 27 Dec 2010 14:44
Victoria5518

yeah...same rocket! explodes again and again...i hope tomorrow it will not explode again.

oh...shooohh...

By deepb• 27 Dec 2010 14:43
deepb

No, it just took him 3 days to finish reading the article. It had over 200 words after all... * rolls eyes *

By britexpat• 27 Dec 2010 14:42
britexpat

Is this the same rocket that exploded yesterday ?

By somwerNdmiddle• 27 Dec 2010 14:39
somwerNdmiddle

lol Arien hahaha!

By Arien• 27 Dec 2010 14:06
Arien

looks like this guy reads 3 days old newspapers.

By somwerNdmiddle• 27 Dec 2010 14:02
somwerNdmiddle

yes it was posted yesterday.

By FlyingAce• 27 Dec 2010 13:59
FlyingAce

If i am not wrong this topic has been posted before also....

By Victoria5518• 27 Dec 2010 13:58
Victoria5518

again???

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