Space Lizard - 10/7/2006 2:25 PMWhat do they mean by design failure? The first/second stages of the core vehicle are inherited from PSLV and have flown (and separated) flawlessly on 12 missions since 1992 (maiden flight was a software failure).
Space Lizard - 10/7/2006 10:35 AMI've just been told by reliable source that the problem was not staging but a drop of pressure in one of the four liquid boosters resulting into assymetric thrust.
Space Lizard - 10/7/2006 3:04 PMHypergolic boosters, solid 1st stage, hypergolic 2nd stage, cryogenic upper stage... They built it with the elements they had.The next generation will be a more optimized design, with solid boosters, hypergolic core stage and cryogenic upper stage.http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/SPACE/Images/launcher-family-big.jpg
zinfab - 10/7/2006 5:09 PMChris, link in the first post of this thread should be:http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=4620not:http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4620Though, it IS interesting to see the forcast for so many commercial launches.