Hi to all, " A Failure is delay in success not defeat". In the same way an attempt to do a great job failed. I think that is not intentional mistake, DONT FORGET THAT HUMAN BEINGS FIRST ATTEMPT TO ENTER INTO SPACE ALSO FAILED.
Certainly it is a setback for us -->byISRO chairman K Kasturirangan Let us wait for the happy moments and a good success into SPACE by our great Indian team. Thanking you all Prabhakar Bangalore
I don't understand the mentality of Indians who go out of joy when it is a success and when it is a failure they start finding people to blame....This is not what we should do, Isro is indeed aiming for moon... now at the time when it needs some moral courage we have to support them for building a better country.
Well this is bound to happen when the PM is willing to ask for 25%SC25%ODC7%ST 2% relatives of top brass 5% ministers recommendations, 10% bribes quota and blah blah blah.... quota where merit should strictly be taken into consideration. It cannot be a coincidence that two simultaneous major projects recieved a set back. Probably this is a waveup call to events that are gona happen in future. Probably deep thinking has to bee done ang going above ones personal interest. It is we the tax payers whose money is wasted when such expensive project fail. In research things are bound to fail but not at this level when the so called top scientists are involved.
I agree with G Subash that the issue may be of espionage and sabotage. The NSC spying case and other penetrations of Indian institutions show that the country's most secret and valuable programs are exposed. Also, since the commercial launch market is getting increasingly competitive, the major launch pioneers would not be very pleased with India's success in launching a 2 tonne satellite. This said, it is equally possible that some among DRDO may be responsible, which would be sad for an institution with such an otherwise high reputation and the labours of all the scientists concerned. This is mere speculation, but I hope the government will investigate and tighten security.
A very disappointing moment. Two successive failures, Agni-III and GSLV. Hope next time they are better prepared. Nothing is going smoothly since UPA came except prices of comodiest are soaring smoothly.
Dear Readers, Before posting your comments, please do regard the fact that every launch and a space mission is still a scientific experiment. Like all other experiments there are always if not 50-50%, but a minimum of 70-30% chances of failure. We must applause to our space scietists who are working days and nights for such missions instead of looking at them with suspision (as spies) or cursing them for their failures. Even, NASA (American space orgaisation) roasted its astronauts twice, once on earth during training mission and another one in space (Late Kalpana Chawla) before learning from its failure. So, Lets stop blogging and cheer up our scietists to go in for further launches with more courage and get all the success they have to earn.
I think the resrvation quota system finally caught up with ISRO and DRDO. The minimum eligibility to get into ISRO/ DRDO is to be SC/ST or BC but the best way to find a career there is to become a spy!!
Till late 90's, ISRO and DRDO were relatively isolated from politics. As the grew in importance,the politics has slowly taken centre stage in these organizations. Political gamesmanship, flight of talent from this sector and faulty decison making was bound to catch up someday.
Wake up as a reader puts it and leave our Science & Tech organizations alone.
RE:Politics in ISRO and DRDO
by Vijaychandran on Jul 11, 2006 12:35 PM Permalink
There is huge caste/religion politics going on inside ISRO among the scientists themselves, which causes these kind of failures. PSLV D2 failure was also linked to some internal politics which was covered-up by the top scientists in ISRO.
