Seventeen years on, India still struggles to come to grips with cryogenic technology for its space programmes
India has had reasonable success in the global race for space. After the success of its moon vehicle, Chandrayaan-1, launched in October 2008, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) wanted to scale new heights with its first independently developed cryogenic engine. Sadly, it was not to be.
(This story appears in the 18 June, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)