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Launch Failure
Liftoff Time (GMT)
10:57:00
Thursday April 15, 2010
First flight test of the ISRO designed and built Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS), replacing the Russian stage. Failed to reach orbit due to malfunction of the Fuel Booster Turbo Pump (FBTP) of the cryogenic upper stage.
GSAT-4, also known as HealthSat, was an experimental communication and navigation satellite launched in April 2010 by the Indian Space Research Organisation on the maiden flight of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk.II rocket. It failed to reach orbit after the rocket's third stage malfunctioned. The third stage was the first Indian-built cryogenic-fuelled upper stage and was making its first flight. The ISRO suspects that the failure was caused by the third stage not igniting.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
1 Payload
2,220 kilograms
Agency
ISROPrice
$47.00 million
Rocket
Height: 51.7m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 5,000 kg
GTO: 2,500 kg
Liftoff Thrust
7,887 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 4m
Height: 7.8m
Stages
3
Strap-ons
4
6th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2010
30th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2010
14th
Orbital launch attempt