Larsen and Toubro's hi-tech Aerospace Manufacturing Facility in Tamil Nadu has played a key role in India's third moon mission which will be launched on Friday.
AT Ramchandani, Executive Vice President and Head, L&T Defence said that the space hardware was produced at L&T’s facility in Coimbatore fulfilling the stringent quality and timeline requirements for the moon mission. The facility in Coimbatore was involved in supply of ground and flight umbilical plates.
Ramchandani said that L&T has been involved in this mission starting from manufacturing subsystems till mission tracking. It also has been playing a key role in the system integration of launch vehicles for the Indian space programme.
He said that the critical booster segments, namely head end segment, middle segment and nozzle bucket flange, with a diameter of 3.2 meter were manufactured and proof pressure tested at L&T’s facility in Powai in Mumbai.
The L&T made Precision Monopulse Tracking Radar (PMTR), a radar system that uses additional encoding of the radio signal to provide accurate directional information, at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota has been used for fast acquisition and tracking of Launch Vehicles.
"We are privileged to partner with ISRO in nationally important space programmes for which L&T has contributed its remarkable engineering prowess, manufacturing expertise and skilled workforce. The Space sector is opening up for the Indian Industry and we will leverage this long association with ISRO to play a bigger role in Space Programmes of the future,” he said. L&T has also commissioned the Deep Space Networking Antenna at Byalalu required for exploratory missions.
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