Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Space Applications Centre (SAC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), to collaborate on indigenising and developing infrastructure for manufacturing space-grade travelling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) in India.
The MoU aims to boost defence and space production indigenisation and save foreign exchange for the country.
TWTA is a complex multi-disciplinary technology that entails controlled interaction of microwave with electron beam under ultrahigh vacuum conditions.TWTAs, developed by SAC, ISRO, and manufactured by BEL, will be used in satellite communication, navigation payloads, microwave remote sensing radar payloads, scientific missions, and inter-spacecraft communications links.
