Nagpur, April 5 -- Solar Defence and Aerospace Limited (SDAL), Nagpur, has developed and manufactured the propulsion system along with its Igniter and realized third stage Rocket Motor for VIKRAM-1 Satellite Launch Vehicle.

This rocket motor has a propellant mass of 2400 kg and a maximum thrust of 75000 N.

The Rocket motor has undergone all the required Non-Destructive Testing at the SDAL facility to ascertain its quality before the static test.

The Rocket Motor has been successfully tested at the Static test bed at SDAL, Nagpur. During the test, the nozzle of this Rocket Motor was vectored to establish thrust vectoring performance. The Rocket motor was fully instrumented, and live test data was displayed and recorded at the Data Acqui...