Rocket Engine Manufacturing Facility Inaugurates in Bengaluru

Rocket Engine Manufacturing Facility Inaugurates in Bengaluru

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: September 28 2022

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  • The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu inaugurates HAL’s state-of-the-art Integrated Cryogenic Engine Manufacturing Facility (ICMF) in Bengaluru on September 27, 2022. 
  • The facility, which would be spread out over an of 4,500-square metres, will cater to the entire rocket engine manufacturing facility for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
  • In 2013 a MoU was signed with ISRO for establishing the facility for manufacturing of Cryogenic Engine modules at Aerospace Division of HAL. The MoU for the Cryogenic Engine facility was subsequently amended in 2016 for building of ICMF at Rs. 208 crores.
  • HAL Aerospace Division manufactures liquid propellant tanks and launch vehicle structures of PSLV, GSLV MK-II, GSLV Mk-III and also stage integration for GSLV Mk-II.
  • On January 5, 2014 India successfully flew GSLV-D5 with a cryogenic engine (made by ISRO through private industries) and became the sixth country in developing cryogenic engines.
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