Insat-4C launch fails, rocket explodes

The mission was earlier delayed by exactly one hour. 

After launch, the rocket Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-FO2, took off from the Sriharikota station at 5.38 p.m. The rocket soared 70-100 km upwards, but the exploded and fell into Bay of Bengal.

"There seems to be a mishap in the first stage of launch," Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) director G. Madhavan Nair told reporters here. "We have to analyze the data."

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Update: The launch of the completely indigenous INSAT-4C communications satellite via Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) has been delayed due to reasons as yet unknown, according to the latest reports.

The revised time of launch is not yet known to us.

Original story on Insat 4C launch below:

India's The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F02) will be launched from Sriharikottta at 16.30 hrs, July 10, 2006.

A new chapter in Indian satellite will open on July 10 when India's The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F02) will be launched from Sriharikottta at 16.30 hrs. The GSLV-F02 will carry a state-of-the-art communication satellite Insat-4C.

The launch will take place from the Second Launchpad at Sriharikotta which was commissioned in May 2005. A PIB release said that the preparations for the launch are on the way, and are believed to be satisfactory. The preparations for the launch are on at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, Sriharikota.

The initial preparations such as launch vehicle systems have been carried out and the systems have been checked. The Insat-4C satellite, which is latest in the Insat series , was transported to Sriharikotta from ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore in the first week of June.

A thorough check-up of the fully integrated satellite will be carried out in the coming days, the release said. The count down of the Insat-4C satellite will start on July 9. The fuel filling for the liquid propellant stages for the launch vehicle will also start on the same day.

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India's The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F02) will be launched from Sriharikottta at 16.30 hrs, July 10, 2006.

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