New Delhi

After the much-expected launch of India’s first Geo-Imaging Satellite (GISAT-1) failed on Thursday morning, Minister  for science and technology Jitendra Singh announced the GSLV-F10 launch will be rescheduled.

He spoke with ISRO Chairman Dr K Sivan soon after the satellite was launched and it was declared unsuccessful after some time.

Jitendra Singh said he had a detailed discussion with Dr Sivan after the launch was declared unsuccessful. “The first two stages went off fine, only after that, there was a difficulty in cryogenic upper stage ignition. The mission can be rescheduled some time again.

About seven minutes into its launch at 5.43 a.m. the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F10) encountered problems in its cryogenic engine-the third and last engine.

The rocket could not send details to the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) ground centre at the spaceport in Sriharikota.

Announcing the mission failure K.Sivan, Chairman, ISRO said: "Technical anomaly was observed in the cryogenic stage and the mission could not be accomplished."

The ISRO said, "The launch of satellite took place today at 0543 Hrs IST as scheduled. Performance of the first and second stages was normal. However, Cryogenic Upper Stage ignition did not happen due to technical anomaly. The mission couldn't be accomplished as intended.