NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Failure

GSAT-4

Launch Time
Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:57 UTC

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.

Rocket

GSLV Mk II
Image Credit: ISRO
ISRO
Status: Active
Price: $47.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 7,887 kN
Payload to LEO: 5,000 kg
Payload to GTO: 2,500 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 51.7 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.0 m
Fairing Height: 7.8 m

Mission Details

GSAT-4

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.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 2,220.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Stats

2010

14th orbital launch attempt

Indian Space Research Organisation

30th mission
1st mission of 2010
6th failed mission

GSLV Mk I & II

6th mission
1st mission of 2010
2nd failed mission