Indian space agency's satellite mission fails due to technical issue
The Indian space agency's mission to launch into orbit a new Earth observation satellite failed after the launch vehicle encountered a technical issue during the third stage of flight, officials said.
The EOS-09 Earth observation satellite took off on board the PSLV-C61 launch vehicle from the Sriharikota space centre in southern India on Sunday morning.
'During the third stage … there was a fall in the chamber pressure of the motor case, and the mission could not be accomplished,' said V Narayanan, chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Active in space research since the 1960s, India has launched satellites for itself and other countries, and successfully put one in orbit around Mars in 2014.
After a failed attempt to land on the moon in 2019, India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon's south pole in 2023 in a historic voyage to uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold reserves of frozen water.
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