Considering it as a boost to India s space ambitions, the satellite was to keep an eye out on locations of interest for India. However, this setback shouldn t stall bigger plans.
Five minutes after the lift-off, scientists saw the rocket deviating from its plotted path on the screen and soon the ISRO officials realized that there was a performance anomaly in the flight path.
GSLV-F10 fails to launch Earth Observation Satellite: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) s GSLV-F10 rocket has been launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on August 12th morning and it failed to launch the earth observation satellite EOS-03 as per the requested orbit. ISRO Chairman K Sivan made an official statement saying that there is a technical anomaly in the cryogenic stage and the mission cannot be accomplished.