The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will continue working with the indigenously developed cryogenic engine even after the failure of the GSLV-D3 mission.

The country has to develop the technology at home because it cannot rely on foreign made engines for all its missions. The agency spent 15 years to develop the cryogenic engine after the country faced technology denial from the US which also forced Russia not to sell the technology to India.

A probe has been launched to determine the causes of the failure of the cryogenic engine. The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) mission failed because the cryogenic engine underperformed causing rocket to deviate from its path.

The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle is as tall as a 25-storey building and weighs 416 tons. It is a three stage rocket where the cryogenic engine takes over after the first two stages separate. The mission was put in orbit an advanced communications satellite called G-Sat, along with other instruments.

K Radhakrishan, chairman of ISRO said that the rocket had spun out of control and the engine may have ignited. The mission cost was around Rs 330 crore. The India made cryogenic engine was deployed for the first time to lift of the huge GSLV rocket.

ISRO doesn't seem deterred with the failure and announced that it will attempt another launch in a year. Scientists say that this technology is difficult to master and even technology powers like US and Japan failed in their earlier attempts.

Mr. Radhakrishnan claims that this failure will not impact Chandrayaan-2 mission scheduled for 2013. According to the plans a GSLV powered by an indigenous cryogenic engine will put into orbit the Chandrayaan-2 in orbit. The craft will send a lander-cum-rover on the surface of the moon.

The next GSLV flight would schedules for September is to use a Russian cryogenic engine and it will put into orbit a communication satellite named GSAT-5B and another GSLV flight will put GSAT-6 into the orbit.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is also scheduled for between May 8 and 10 and it will put Cartosat-2B, an Algerian satellite, two nano satellites from the Norwegian defense establishment and Switzerland along with a Studsat by college students in Bangalore and Hyderabad into the orbit.