GSAT-5P, second time unlucky (Video)
Sci/Tech Sunday, December 26th, 2010Christmas Day turned sour for the ISRO. Its launch vehicle carrying the communications satellite GSAT-5P exploded after lifting off from Sriharikota. An Indian space rocket carrying the country’s largest communications satellite has exploded shortly after launch. Live television coverage showed the rocket vanishing in a plume of smoke moments after lift-off from Sriharikota near the [...]