Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

Space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation

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2025 A new drop-test facility for the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) program was inaugurated at VSSC.
February 27 2024 Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally inaugurated the Trisonic Wind Tunnel (TWT) at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, a new facility for testing the aerodynamic design of rockets. This is India's third hypersonic wind tunnel, capable of functioning in subsonic, transonic, and hypersonic wind velocity ranges.
2023 VSSC created FEAST (Finite Element Analysis of Structures), an analysis program for structural analysis, made accessible for Indian academic institutions and business sectors.
2022 S. Somanath concludes his directorship at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.
2018 S. Somanath begins his tenure as director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.

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