Chennai, July 23 -- The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) of ISRO has developed Personnel Sphere for the prestigious Deep Ocean Mission Samudryaan project.
'Samudrayaan' is a project under the Deep Ocean Mission of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) which envisages the development of MATSYA-6000, a submersible spherical vessel to carry humans into the sea up to a depth of 6km.
Towards development of this Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV), National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), MoES signed a Memorandum of Understanding with VSSC, ISRO for realizing the spherical vessel.
Design of the personnel sphere along with development of the material for realisation was carried out by VSSC.
MATSYA-6000 is a sphere of 2260mm diameter with ...