BEL signs MoU with SAC-ISRO to boost indigenisation of defence and space production

New Delhi: Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Space Applications Centre (SAC), ISRO to collaborate on indigenizing and developing infrastructure for manufacturing space-grade Travelling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs) in India.

The BEL stated that the Memorandum of Understanding signed at SAC Ahmedabad will enhance the localization of defense and space production, leading to savings in foreign exchange for the country.

“TWTA is a complex multi-disciplinary technology involving controlled interaction of microwave with electron beam under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. State-of-the-art fabrication and manufacturing facility for TWTAs has been established at BEL,” the defense PSU said.

TWTAs developed by SAC, ISRO, and manufactured by BEL will be used in satellite communication and navigation payloads, microwave remote sensing radar payloads, scientific missions or probes, and inter-spacecraft communications links.

These items are integral parts of various communication and microwave remote sensing payloads, it added.