Failure Analysis Committee constituted to probe GSLV-F02 fiasco

Bangalore, July 12 (UNI) A 15-member Failure Analysis Committee has been constituted by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair to probe the failed GSLV-F02 launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on July ten.

ISRO, in a release here, said former SDSC Director K Narayana, presently the Senior Advisor at the Centre, would chair the committee, which had been asked to submit its report within a month.

Consisting of experts from academic and research institutions, besides those from various ISRO centres, the Committee would review the performance of all sub-systems of GSLV-F02 from lift-off to the termination of flight, identify specific reasons for anomalies observed and recommend corrective measures for future course of action, the release said.

GSLV-F02, which had an ideal lift-off, was destructed 60 seconds into the flight after it veered away from the intended path following the malfunctioning of one of the four strap-on boosters.

The second operational flight of GSLV was to put into geosynchronous orbit for the first time an INSAT satellite --INSAT 4C carrying 12 Ku band transponders meant for Direct-to-Home television transmission.

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