The Indian Space Research Organization has said its rocket carrying small satellites launched on Sunday placed them in the wrong orbit, rendering them unstable and thus, unusable, ISRO said in a statement on Sunday.
The Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, a maiden attempt by ISRO to send lighter satellites into space, had placed them in an elliptical
, instead of a circular orbit, which would eventually destabilize the satellites, ISRO’s Chairman S Somanath said in a video update on the launch.
“A committee would analyse and make recommendations soon. The ISRO would come back with an SSLV-D2,” the organization said in a Tweet.
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