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Division of Area entered into an settlement with 2 aerospace tech startups (Representational)
Bengaluru:
The Division of Area (DoS) has entered right into a framework settlement with aerospace know-how startup Agnikul Cosmos for entry to ISRO amenities and experience in the direction of the event and testing of subsystems/methods of house launch automobiles.
The settlement will allow the corporate to undertake a number of exams and entry amenities at varied ISRO (Indian Area Analysis Organisation) centres for testing and qualification of its single piece 3D printed Semi Cryo engine and different methods.
It should additionally allow Agnikul, based mostly in Nationwide Centre for Combustion R&D of IIT-Madras, Chennai, to avail technical experience of ISRO for testing and qualifying its house launch car methods and subsystems.
Agnikul stated the settlement would formally allow it to go ahead with its testing plans at ISRO.
“With this degree of Govt. assist, low earth orbit does look shut”, tweeted the corporate, which raised USD 11 Million Sequence A spherical from institutional and angel traders earlier this yr.
Prime Agnikul officers met Division of Area secretary and ISRO Chairman, Okay Sivan, who assured all assist from Division of Area for qualifying Agnikul launch car methods.
ISRO’s Scientific Secretary and Chairman, Interim IN-SPACe (Indian Nationwide Area Promotion and Authorisation Centre) Committee, R Umamaheswaran signed the settlement on Friday on behalf of DoS and Agnikul CEO Srinath Ravichandran inked it from the corporate aspect.
Division of Area additionally entered into an identical settlement with Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace final week for entry to ISRO amenities and experience in the direction of the event and testing of subsystems/methods of house launch automobiles.
The Framework MoU will allow the corporate for enterprise a number of exams and entry amenities at varied ISRO centres and in addition to avail technical experience of ISRO for testing and qualifying its house launch car methods and subsystems.
In the meantime, earlier this week, the ISRO Chairman inaugurated the spacecraft analysis laboratory at Bellatrix Aerospace situated on the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bengaluru.
This privately funded propulsion lab has in-house amenities for growth and testing of electrical and inexperienced chemical propulsion applied sciences, in accordance ISRO.
Dr Sivan appreciated the younger group for establishing the state-of-the artwork facility which homes gear reminiscent of built-in thermal excessive vacuum check amenities, catalytic reactors, propellant preparation amenities, and specialised excessive temperature coating amenities.
