It was disappointing news for the Indian space community when the GSLV flight literally exploded mid air.This is the fourth failure in seven flights for the GSLV.THe latest one cost 150 Crore.
The GSLV-F06 flight on Saturday has also ended in failure because a command to control the vehicle did not reach the actuator in the first stage of the vehicle. This vehicle carried a Russian cryogenic stage in the third topmost stage.
After a delay of five days, because of leak of helium gas from one of the valves in the Russian cryogenic stage, the GSLV-F06 finally took off on Saturday.
While it cost Rs. 175 crore to build the GSLV-F06, for the GSAT-5P it cost Rs. 150 crore.
The GSLV is a three-stage vehicle, with the first core stage powered by solid propellants, four strap-on motors around the core stage, which are fueled by liquid propellants, the second stage propelled by liquid propellants and the third topmost stage uses cryogenic propellants.
The latest one had an indigenous cryogenic engine.It is a big disappointment for out "Prospective space business as our cryogenic engine costs ten times less than any other engine.
Successful testing of the engine would create an export market for our space rockets since no can match our cost advantages and result in thousands of jobs for our scientific community.
Lets hope that ISRO learns from all these failures 150 crores wasted Yes but hopefully in the future all this research costs will result in 1000 of crores. We should consider all this failyre as part of our R&D costs (as it is we are one of the large economies with %of GDP as R&D).
It is in the national interest for us to support our space community to create an indigenous space program.
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