Ranchi: Tata Steel has bagged a Rs 14 crore order from the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) for supplying hi-tech equipment to the country’s main rocket launching facility. The equipment being supplied by includes two launching pads and cryo-arms, which hold a rocket in place till it lifts off.

The order came after the Metallurgical and Engineering Consultancy (Mecon) recommended Tata Steel to Isro, which needs the equipment for its Sriharikota Space Centre, 100 km north of Chennai. Engineers and designers at Tata Steel’s Adityapur-based Growth Shop, a hi-tech engineering and fabricating unit, have developed the equipment that suit Isro’s requirements three-member Isro team, visiting Tisco facilities in Jamshedpur, has inspected launching pads.