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Three back-to-back space mission failures call for ‘serious introspection, honest analysis’: Ex-ISRO mission chief

Chennai, Jan 20 (UNI) A serious course correction in technical, process quality, testing and security gaps will enable Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to come up again, says Tapan Misra, retired Director of Space Applications Centre, ISRO. Referring to the three consecutive failures of India’s strategic satellite launch missions and without terming them as enemy action Misra said: “One failure is accident. Two failures can be construed as coincident.

Central India's Premier English Daily

Central India's Premier English Daily

Credit: Centralchronicle

Key Highlights

  • Three consecutive failures are symptomatic of a pattern if nothing else fits.
  • It calls for serious introspection and honest analysis of all possible technical and non technical, both internal and external, causes.” “A serious course correction in technical, process, quality, testing and managerial gaps and above all security gaps, will definitely enable ISRO to resurrect like Phoenix,” Misra added.
  • Misra is considered the father of the Indian SAR satellite.
  • He said on Jan 29, 2025, NVS-02 a military NAVIC satellite, was launched by ISRO.
  • The rocketing was a success, but the NVS-02 orbit could not be raised to geostationary orbit due to the failure of an oxidiser valve in the apogee boost motor.
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