Vikas Engine

Vikas Engine

News: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully tested the throttling of Vikas, its workhorse launch-vehicle engine.

About:
 VIKAS (an acronym for Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai) engine is a family of liquid-fuelled rocket engines conceptualized and designed by the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre of ISRO in the 1970s.
 The early productions involved imported French components, which were later replaced by domestically produced equivalents.
 These engines are deployed for ISRO’s PSLV and the GSLV series of expendable launch vehicles for space launch use.

What are Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre?
 It is the center for the design, development, and realization of liquid propulsion stages for ISRO's Launch Vehicles.
 LPSC Facilities spread across LPSC, Valiamala, Thiruvananthapuram, and LPSC, Bengaluru, Karnataka.