Chandrayaan-2 Launch Postponed to July 22 Following Technical Snag

Jul. 18, 2019

The space agency has rectified the fault in its‘Bahubali’rocket-Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) whose Monday flight with Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was called off an hour before its lift off at 2.51 a.m. The ISRO had constituted an expert committee to go into the root cause of the snag.

Non-building of sufficient pressure in the helium tanks in the rocket could be the reason for calling off the Moon landing mission one hour before the rocket’s take off, two retired officials of the Indian space organisation told IANS.

According to ISRO, the committee identified the root cause of the technical snag and all corrective actions are implemented. Thereafter, the system performance is normal. The ISRO officials told IANS that the fault was rectified at the second launch pad itself where the rocket has been positioned for the July 22 launch.