Mishra Dhatu Nigam (MIDHANI) has dispatched its first consignment of Ultra High Strength Steel for Ignitor box and Cobalt alloy for Throat Sitting Rings for indigenous manned mission of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ‘Gaganyaan’ which will carry its ‘Vyomanauts’ to space.
In addition, MIDHANI shall also supply Titanium Alloy materials for Gaganyaan’s GSLV-Mark-III rocket liquid engine thrusters, nozzle, gas bottles, cryogenic upper stage components. The company and ISRO have been working together over four decades and have developed critical input materials used in cryogenic engine, rocket motor casing, propellant tanks, etc. Investment castings of vacuum melted quality of Nickel alloys, Stainless steel for Exhaust Unit and Hafnium-Niobium metal were also developed by MIDHANI, these materials will also be used in ISRO's ambitious Gaganyaan Mission.
Mishra Dhatu Nigam is the prime specialized metals and metal alloys manufacturing facility in India, located at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
