Overview
- Date / time
- July 10, 2006 at 12:08 PM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad
- Mission
- Classified
- Mission type
- Classified
FailureThe primary cause for the failure was the sudden loss of thrust in one out of the four liquid propellant strap-on stages (S4) immediately after lift-off at 0.2 sec. Rocket's self destruct was engaged over the Bay of Bengal.