The Hindu Business Line : BEL components for ISRO

Bharat Electronics Ltd on Thursday handed over to ISRO two flight-model travelling wave tubes that are used onboard communication satellites. With this, BEL joins the small number of companies in the world that make these space-qualified components for spacecraft, the defence public sector unit said. BEL already supplies solar cell arrays to the space agency.

Its Chief Managing Director, Mr V.V.R. Sastry, said BEL was keen to explore the space segment. "We are all set to venture into the realm of space," he said. The tubes were designed and developed as part of a joint project of BEL, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, based on the design of the Central Electronic Engineering Research Institute, Pilani.

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