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One of the projects announced is a new facility within the space centre itself, called the Trisonic Wind Tunnel..
Bengaluru:The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has formally inaugurated afirst-of-its-kind,large trisonic wind tunnel(TWT) at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Keralas Thiruvananthapuram, which would be used for testing the aerodynamic design of rockets to make them more efficient...
The TWT is Indias third hypersonic wind tunnel (HWT) after the Defence Research and Development Organisations HWT at the APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex in Hyderabad, and the 1.2 metre TWT at National Aerospace Laboratories in Bengaluru...
The TWT is eponymously capable of operating at three wind velocity ranges: below the speed of sound (subsonic), at the speed of sound (transonic), and above the speed of sound (hypersonic)..
It can reach maximum wind velocity conditions of four times the speed of sound (1360 metre per second), with a minimum speed of 0.2 times the speed of sound (68 metre per second).It also contains different sections for different velocity regimen of wind...
