This Indian company plans to build NASA successor to ISS, it’s not of Mukesh Ambani, Ratan Tata, Gautam Adani

Larsen and Toubro (L&T), India’s largest engineering firm, which has been powering ISRO’s space missions for over 5 decades, has now set its sights on conquering the international market as eyes a cope with NASA to build the successor of the International Space Station (ISS).

Earlier, L&T said it became in talks with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for supplying orbital launch capabilities and space habitat solutions but the negotiations failed to materialise into anything concrete.

“Some remnants of that discussion continue till these days but now with NASA. So, we're also hopeful that when the U. S. requires its next space station, Indian firms can have a job to play contained in the supply chain,” Vikas Khita, Vice President, L&T Precision Engineering and Systems, told news agency PTI on the sidelines of an industry meet organised by Geospatial World.

Khita revealed the firm became also excited by building space ports, space parks and manufacturing clusters, areas which are expected to get a lift taking into account the government’s opening up of the gap sector for deepest participation in 2020.

“In commercial terms, we're having a look at a fivefold increase in turnover by 2033 of the gap economy and an oversized a bit of this increase is to come from the upstream and the downstream sectors,” he said

About Larsen and Toubro

Larsen & Toubro is an Indian multinational firm with operations in over 50 countries across the globe. L&T, according to its LinkedIn bio, is engaged in EPC Projects, Hi-Tech Manufacturing and Services.

L&T says it became the first company in India contained in the engineering and construction space to publicly disclose its sustainability performance.

Notably, the company won't be to any extent further owned by any of India’s big three – Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, or Ratan Tata. L&T , which became founded in 1946 by Henning Holck-Larsen and Soren Kristian Toubro, has been involved contained in the production of a kind of hardware for every project of ISRO, including the Chandrayaan, Gaganyaan, and Mars Orbiter missions.

The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited-L&T consortium is likewise producing 5 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles (PSLV), marking the industry’s maiden foray in building rockets for the gap agency.