"Both in aircraft and rocket flights, a fault is often detected when a failure happens. The result is catastrophic. We need modern techniques to detect faults before a system failure happens," VSSC Director M C Dathan said here today.
Inaugurating the national conference of Astronautical Society of India (ASI) here, he said there are two most probable causes for failures in such complex systems. The first and foremost was not having a full understanding on how systems work.
"The second is over attachment to some systems in the belief they wil not fail and a general tendency to have implicit faith on foreign equipment, which makes us less keen on testing them," he said.
Dathan pointed out that one of the key aspects of the success of ISRO's first Mars mission was the huge amount of data analysis done to find out what had gone wrong on previous Mars missions and the meticulous precautions taken to prevent such failures.
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