HYDERABAD: The maiden flight of Agni-III, India’s most powerful and advanced long-range ballistic missile, from Wheeler Island, off the Orissa coast, on Sunday was unsuccessful.
Although the lift-off at 11.03 a.m. was smooth, the two-stage missile crashed into the sea after climbing to a height of 12 km. :faizy: Official sources attributed the failure of the flight to the non-separation of the first stage from the second stage.
“The launch did not meet all the mission requirements,” the sources said. A “design failure” is said to be the reason behind the non-separation of the first stage. Both the stages are powered by solid propellants.
The countdown for the launch of the surface-to-surface missile, with a range of 3,500 km, went off smoothly at the Integrated Test Range of the Defence Research and Development Organisation
For who?
If Pakistan is investing in reasearch to find technology to further their goal to someday go to mars or further away into space then it makes sense, otherwise whats the point.
Otherwise its a waste, because as the map above shows version II is already covering whole of India.
Well like I found it hard to believe that the second stage of Agni-3 failed to separate from the first one. As ISRO has been launching multiple stage rockets into space since the past 20 years, this failure was not expected.
Three more tests of Agni-3 are planned, so we must wait and watch.
, samandar main gir k paani paani ho jaogay:hoonh: