Failure of maiden SSLV flight likely to affect US firm’s launch booking on ISRO rocket

Failure of maiden SSLV flight likely to affect US firm’s launch booking on ISRO rocket

Failure of the maiden flight of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) on Sunday is likely to further delay a launch that was booked on the SSLV rocket by US space launch services firm Spaceflight Inc. The SSLV received a commercial booking in 2019 from Spaceflight Inc in anticipation of […]

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Failure of maiden SSLV flight likely to affect US firm’s launch booking on ISRO rocket

ISRO says satellites launched by SSLV ‘no longer usable’: Top points to note

ISRO’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) lifted off from the spaceport in Sriharikota at 9.18 AM. But almost immediately, something went wrong. Minutes after launch ISRO chairman S Somanath said that the SSLV D1 mission suffered “data loss” at a terminal stage. And not long after that, ISRO announced that the two satellites deployed by […]

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