Why Kaveri Engine Failed in Making A Powerful Gas Turbine For Fighter Jets?

Why Kaveri Engine Failed in Making A Powerful Gas Turbine For Fighter Jets?

Why Kaveri Engine Failed: In the 1960s, ISRO started to build sound rockets for upper atmosphere research. These sound rockets were simple by nature and go 20–50 kilometres into the atmosphere. Large numbers of sounding rockets have been developed and launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS).  ISRO has developed a series of sounding rockets called Rohini series, important among them being RH-200, RH-300 and RH-560, number in the name indicating the diameter of the rocket in mm. These rockets weigh up to few hundreds of kilograms. Next ISRO started to build simplistic and smallest possible satellite launch rocket in the 1970s, which could put a small satellite into lower earth orbits. It's known as SLV ( Satellite Launch Vehicle) project. After some initial failure SLV-3 able to put a small satellite into lower earth orbit in 1979.  The weight of SLV was 17 tons. Next ISRO builds a bigger rocket ASLV in the 1980s. ASLV failed all its test flight. But ISRO got va…