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HAL and L&T sign MoU to manufacture industry-made PSLV
Bengaluru, Jan 11 (PTI): The Indian Space Research
Organisation Friday said that its strategic partners Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited and L&T have signed an MoU to manufacture
the industry-made Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
ISRO has initiated an action plan to get the PSLV
production ready through industry, with the Government
clearing the proposal.
PSLV has been ISRO's workhorse with 45 flights,
including India's successful missions to the Moon and Mars.
Until now, public and private industries have been
supplying devices, components and sub-systems for the PSLV.
ISRO is taking steps to hand over the entire gamut of
launch vehicle manufacture to domestic industry by 2020.
"Anticipating such a proposal and earlier
interactions, the current strategic partners of ISRO -- HAL
and L&T -- signed an MoU for realising the PSLV stages and
supply to ISRO, making use of existing supply chain for
materials and components and production and integration
facilities of ISRO,"the space agency said on its website.
ISRO Chairman K Sivan said that a consortium has
already been created between L&T and HAL and they are ready to
take up the production of PSLV.
Terming it as a "major milestone", he said "L&T and
HALhave already come together. They have signed an agreement.
They came and spoke to me yesterday...now in this
consortium, other companies are also going to join."
Citing several advanced time-bound projects likethe
commercialisation of GSLV Mk III,Gaganyaan human space mission
and otheradvanced space exploration missions, ISRO said its
limited resources would be utilised for these projects for
their timelycompletion, where a lot of Research and
Development is involved.
"The regular production of PSLV shall be realised by
anindustry consortium and ISRO will confine itself to do
missionanalysis and planning and configuration controls," it
said.
PSLV, a "versatile" vehicle designed and developed by
ISRO, has been successfully deployed for remote sensing,
Navigation, communication and deep space missions.
According to ISRO, the reliability of the vehicle isas
high as 0.97 and the vehicle is gaining importance in the
international market as the demand for satellite launches are
increasing continuously from customers, inaddition to
domestic users.
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