The HAL-ISRO partnership will further get strengthened in the years to come. An integrated cryogenic engine manufacturing facility will be set up at HAL's aerospace division here and the division will manufacture cryogenic/semi-cryogenic engines for ISRO, said R K Tyagi, Chairman, HAL.
Congratulating ISRO for successfully prodding the sleeping engine of the Mars spacecraft back to life and for making it fire briefly, Tyagi said: "Our best wishes are with them for tomorrow's operations that would put the spacecraft in the red planet's orbit."
At present, discussions with ISRO are already on for assembly integration and testing of IRNSS satellites and for productionisation of propulsion sub-system for spacecraft and launch vehicle projects.
Work packages for the Chandrayan-2 and Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) projects are also on the anvil.
HAL has partnered and supported ISRO throughout its journey by providing hardware for satellites, SLV, ASLV, PSLV, GSLVMKII and GSLV MKIII (LVM3).