Jul 10 2006
From The Space Library
ISRO’s launch of a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) failed when the GSLV malfunctioned, taking with it an INSAT-4C communications satellite. ISRO had created the GSLV series of rockets to put heavy satellites weighing 2.0–2.5 tonnes (2,000–2,500 kilograms or 2.2–2.8 tons) into geosynchronous orbit. The Indian National Satellite system, INSAT, is a series of domestic communications satellites. ISRO launched the rocket (formally designated GSLV-F02) from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, an island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Soon after liftoff, the GSLV’s first stage failed to separate, causing the rocket to veer from its trajectory, falling into the Bay of Bengal. The unsuccessful launch, ISRO’s fourth launch of a GSLV, was the first GSLV launch ever to fail.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), “Chandrayaan-1’s Orbit Closer to Moon,” press release, 10 July 2006, http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/scripts/pressreleasein.aspx?Jul10_2006 (accessed 14 September 2010); ISRO, “GSLV,” http://www.isro.org/Launchvehicles/GSLV/gslv.aspx# (accessed 14 September 2010); Von Puttkamer, “Space Flight 2006.”
Michael E. Fossum and [[Piers J. Sellers] performed a second spacewalk for Mission STS-121. In the course of the spacewalk, which lasted almost 7 hours, the two astronauts restored the ISS’s mobile rail transporter car to full operational status and replaced a damaged component of the station’s electrical power system. That component, called the trailing umbilical system, had sustained damage during earlier operations.
NASA, “STS-121.”
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