{"id":35315,"date":"2018-10-31T16:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35315"},"modified":"2018-10-31T16:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:52:35","slug":"down-but-not-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/down-but-not-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Down but not out:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/down-but-not-out\/article19622426.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Down but not out<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recent launch of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) was a failure. It was carried by PSLV-C39 rocket. The failed PSLV attempt to launch the navigation satellite would not affect the future missions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the Issue?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PSLV-C39 rocket carrying the eighth satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) had a normal lift-off and flight events but ended in an unsuccessful mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Why did PSLV-C39 rocket fail?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The heat-shield failed to separate, resulting in the satellite separation occurring within the shield. This resulted in the failure of the rocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What are the major learning from the failure?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The failed mission serves as a reminder that utmost care and scrutiny are required before every single launch.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first time since 1997 that ISRO has had a failed launch. It had a spree of 37 straight successful PSLV launches.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigation satellite &#8216;IRNSS-1H&#8217; was meant to augment the existing seven satellites of the NavIC constellation to give India its own GPS services on a par with the US and Russia. It was thus a missed opportunity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the impact of the failure?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The failure of the mission is disheartening as the IRNSS-1H satellite was jointly assembled and tested by ISRO and a Bangalore-based private company, the first time a single private company, rather than a consortium, was involved in building a satellite. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The space organization has thrown open its doors to private companies to build as many as 18 spacecraft a year beginning mid or end-2018.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IRNSS-1H satellite was launched as a replacement for the IRNSS-1A satellite, which became in operational in terms of surveillance following the failure of all three atomic clocks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the possible result of the failure?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the failure of this mission, India will have to wait for some more time before the next mission to send a replacement for the IRNSS-1A satellite is ready.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IRNSS was created so that the country would not need to rely on American-based GPS data \u2014 the encrypted, accurate positioning and navigation information provided by the system will make Indian military operations self-reliant.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down but not out:\u00a0 Context The recent launch of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) was a failure. It was carried by PSLV-C39 rocket. The failed PSLV attempt to launch the navigation satellite would not affect the future missions. What is the Issue? The PSLV-C39 rocket carrying the eighth satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/down-but-not-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Down but not out:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}