Monday, June 05, 2006
MUMBAI: Engineering major Larsen and Toubro is building satellite tracking radars for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which would be used in the country's future space missions.
These instrumentation grade radars would also be capable of tracking space launches and would be located at the Satish Dhawan Spaceport at Sriharikota on the Eastern coast, from where ISRO’s rockets fire satellites into space.
L&T is developing these radars with essential design and technical assistance from the ISRO’s Radar Development Center (ISRAD) and inputs from other ISRO laboratories and start stations, L&T Senior Vice President M V Kotwal told PTI here.
"We expect to complete the development work, installation commissioning and hand it over to the space agency in about two years," he said.
These radars would be equipped with advanced sensors developed by L&T at its in-house technology centre for accurate tracking of deep space satellites for ISRO.
Last year, L&T joined hands with Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) to start work on surveillance radars for the Indian Air Force and Indian Navy.
Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), a Bangalore-based DRDO lab, is operational as the nodal agency for the project. "These surveillance radars have already entered into series production phase and orders have been placed with BEL as primary contractor," Kotwal added.
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