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GSLV cables snapped… but why?

Submit on Monday, January 3rd, 2011 22:59

ISRO has published the findings of a Preliminary Failure Analysis Team looking into the loss of the GLSV-F06 rocket carrying the GSAT-5P satellite. It has been confirmed that 10 connectors between the second and the third stage snapped early into flight when they should have not. The cause for this has still to be established.
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