Indian space programme suffered a serious setback on Thursday as its GSLV-F10 rocket failed midway in its mission of putting into orbit the Geo-Imaging Satellite-1 (GISAT-1).
The trajectory of the spacecraft, which lifted off from the Sriharikota spaceport on 5:43 AM, was seen as deviating from the set path around five minutes into the launch, soon after the announcement of separation of the payload fairings and firing of the third cryogenic stage of the rocket.
Five minutes after the lift-off, scientists saw the rocket deviating from its plotted path on the screen and soon the ISRO officials realized that there was a performance anomaly in the flight path.