The World - News from Aug. 1, 1988

An Indian satellite launched into space nine days ago has developed a power fault, the Indian Space Research Organization said. A spokesman was quoted by the Press Trust of India news agency as saying that one of the Insat satellite’s two solar power units had developed a problem Friday. Indian and U.S. aerospace experts were analyzing the fault before deciding what action to take. The successful launch of the satellite by the European Ariane rocket had come as a relief to Indian space scientists after the second successive failure of an Indian-designed rocket on July 13.