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| Agni 3 ICBM missile failure: report in two weeks |
| 2006-08-17 |
| 2 meter diameter .. this thing is fatter than they previously admitted - possible SLBM role CHENNAI: The committee, set up to go into the failure of the maiden flight of the long-range Agni-III ballistic missile, will submit its report to the Union Government in two weeks, sources in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have said. ``We will overcome [this failure]. We have all the telemetry data. We have nothing to hide. The committee is in the process of analysing the data,'' the sources said. The sequence of the flight was available in images as well. The first test-flight of the missile from the Wheeler Island, off the Orissa coast, on July 9 failed. Agni-III is a two-stage missile. Both the stages are powered by solid propellants. The missile is 16 metres tall and weighs 48 tonnes. It can carry nuclear warheads and has a range of 3,500 km. Asked whether the first-cut analysis of the flight showed that the failure was due to the non-separation of the second stage from the first stage, the sources said, ``I don't think one can come to such conclusions. From the first-cut, I may know something. It should be re-confirmed. It should be validated by analytical data.'' In any failure, it was not enough to look at what was visible. The primary and secondary data should be analysed. The missile had a large motor [first-stage] with a diametre of two metres. So anything could have happened. After the committee, headed by a former Chief Controller of the Missiles and Strategic Weapons group of the DRDO, submitted the report, it might take at least four months for the next flight of the Agni-III, the sources said. |
| Posted by:john |
| #3 There is a reason they all this "Rocket Science". It aint easy. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-08-17 13:31 |
| #2 That is the ISRO (the civilian space agency). The DRDO does missile development. Wired is running a few stories on the Indian space program Link |
| Posted by: john 2006-08-17 13:29 |
| #1 India has the coolest little space program you've never heard of. |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-08-17 13:16 |