The problem has been addressed, and the SSLV rocket will fly again in the coming months, Indian officials say.
Six months later, ISRO officials have pinpointed what caused the failure of the SSLV, which consists of three solid-fuel stages topped by a"velocity trimming module," or VTM.
The satellites were not successfully salvaged, however; deployment occurred when the SSLV was going about 125 mph slower than the required 17,209 mph . The velocity shortfall is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that the VTM never fired up — a feature of salvage mode. In addition, the SSLV conducted its salvage work without data from the accelerometers, because they had been declared faulty. Investigators have since concluded, however, that the accelerometers survived the vibrational shock in good shape; they were briefly saturated but not damaged.
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