October 09, 2026 06:05 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
‘Bold and inventive’: Canadian poet Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature | ‘Attempt to destabilise world’s largest democracy’: 42 retired judges rally behind Gyanesh Kumar over ‘vote chori’ row | ‘Vote chor, gaddi chod’: Dhruv Rathee, Prakash Raj join Bengaluru protest against Gyanesh Kumar | India condemns Houthi attacks on Saudi airports, calls targeting of civilian infrastructure unacceptable | Dalal Street bloodbath: Investors lose Rs. 8 lakh crore as Sensex crashes over 1,000 points | Amazon layoffs hit India, US and UK: Fresh job cuts rock e-commerce giant amid festive shopping season | Bollywood mourns Nana Patekar: Anupam Kher, Akshay Kumar, Jr NTR, Suniel Shetty pay emotional tributes | ‘He was never wavering while expressing his opinions’: PM Modi mourns Nana Patekar | Nana Patekar dies at 75: Veteran actor suffers cardiac arrest at Goa home | RBI shocks borrowers with first repo rate hike since 2023; rates raised to 5.50%

PSLV-C39 Flight carrying Navigation Satellite fails, says ISRO

| @indiablooms | Sep 01, 2017, at 05:57 am
Sriharikota, Aug 31 (IBNS): The 41st flight of India’s first private sector manufactured Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C39), which was conducted on Thursday evening from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, turned out to be unsuccessful, India's space agency ISRO said.

According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), PSLV-C39 had a normal lift-off at 7:00 p.m. and all the flight events took place exactly as planned, except heat shield separation which resulted in satellite separation occurring within the heat shield. 

ISRO chairman AS Kiran Kumar said the PSLV C39 stumbled in the fourth and last stage when the launcher had to release the satellite into the orbit.

IRNSS-1H was manufactured by a consortium led by Alpha Design Technologies, a defence equipment supplier from Bengaluru.

The satellite is inside the heat shield resulting in the unsuccessful mission.

Detailed analysis is under progress to identify the cause of the anomaly in the heat shield separation event.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.