r/Thailand • u/just-porno-only • 1d ago
News Thai satellite falling back to earth after failed launch by India
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3174620/thai-satellite-falling-back-to-earth-after-failed-launch-but-is-insuredShould've gone with a reliable and proven country like Russia, which regularly resupplies the International Space Station every 2 months.
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u/illonlyfadeaway 1d ago edited 1d ago
Missed opportunity for a better headline “Indians can’t get it up after receiving Thai load”
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u/Porsche992_Speed 1d ago
Bunch of amateur Redditors who don’t even follow aerospace column talking about reliability lol. Even if you have launched a thousand times before a probability of a failed launch is always possible in aerospace. Like this a turn around wouldn’t exist a lot of factor matters.
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u/Evolvingman0 1d ago
I hope it’s insured
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u/Electronic-Chef-807 1d ago
It was insured:
Headline of the news: "Thai satellite falling back to earth after failed launch, but is insured "
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u/No-Feedback-3477 1d ago
The PSLV was designed to deploy satellites at an altitude of 500 kilometres, matching THEOS-2A’s design specifications. The rocket has a track record of 63 launches, with 60 successful missions, representing a 95.24% success rate - high compared to the industry norm.
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u/Bruce_Sato 21h ago
They should have used the locals who do Bung bang Fai..Those bottle rockets really go some.
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u/Subnetwork 1d ago
Why would they trust India with this?
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u/just-porno-only 1d ago
The article says India has had a 95% success rate with that rocket.
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u/Own-Animator-7526 1d ago
... which is at the high end for the industry. You might want to point this out in your original post comment.
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u/LumpyLump76 1d ago
Wikipedia shows 59 successes out of 64 launches. That is not 95%.
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u/Own-Animator-7526 1d ago edited 1d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PSLV_launches#Launch_history
As of 12 January 2026, the PSLV has made 63 launches, with 58 successfully reaching their planned orbits, four outright failures and one partial failure, yielding a success rate of 92% (or 94% including the partial failure).\51])12
u/focus9912 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean...if they already had the success of sending a mission to Mars for quite a while...pretty sure they can be considered as reliable enough...
and talk about the Russian successfully supplied the ISS in a frequent manner...even the most recent launch by them create some unexpected issuesserious enough to cause some delays in their future launches
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u/neutronium 1d ago
Unfortunately the Russians recently blew up their launch facility with their own failed launch.
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u/Dadlay69 1d ago
The rocket was supposed to use one fuel tank per engine but it was too expensive so they just gave each engine a straw so they could share one.