New Delhi The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) first Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) flight failed on Sunday due to sensor failure in its maiden mission.
“All the first three stages of the vehicle performed as expected. However, SSLV-D1 placed the satellites in a 356 km x 76 km elliptical orbit, which is the lowest orbit and is not stable due to the Earth’s force of attraction, due to which the satellites could not stay in orbit and have already crashed. As a result, they are no longer usable,” ISRO Chairman S Somnath said in a statement.
The agency has yet to announce its decision on the mission. Somnath said ISRO is still evaluating the data from SSLV.
The SSLV took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh in the morning to deploy two small satellites – the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS)-02, and AzadiSat, which are in low-Earth orbit about 365 km above the Earth. is in. Equator. AzadiSAT was created as part of a government outreach program to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) among women, and 75 students from across India participated in the program.
The EOS-02 was primarily intended to relay ground imagery data through its high-resolution remote sensing imaging equipment for disaster management, hydrology, agriculture, forestry, among other tasks.
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