India's first launch of powerful carrier rocket with the homemade cryogenic engine failed on Thursday afternoon, local media reported.

The carrier rocket with the homemade indigenous cryogenic engine, GSLV-D3, blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh. However, its two small engines could not ignite, causing the scientists at the ground control room receiving no signals, CNN-IBN quoted an official of the Indian Space Research Organizaiton (ISRO) as saying.

The official said the ISRO would launch the carrier rocket with the home-made cryogenic engine within a year.

GSLV-D3, whose development began in the 1990s, is about 49 meters high, and more than 400 tons for its launching weight, could send a satellite into an orbit of approximately 36,000 kilometers above the earth.

At present, only the U.S., Russia, China, Japan and France have mastered the advanced cryogenic engine technology in the carrier rocket.

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