Bhubaneswar, Aug 25:Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will source its components from Central Tool Room and Training Centre (CTTC) for its different aerospace missions for the next five years.

The centre will supply spacecraft propulsion system components that will help to propel launch vehicles and the satellites into space.

An agreement to this effect was signed by both the organisations here earlier this week. The Rs 32-crore contract is believed to be a huge achievement for the training centre and will help in developing manufacturing base in the state.

Around 24 types of assembles of the spacecraft propulsion system components will be supplied along with transducers (an electronic device that converts energy from one form to another ).

An agreement was also signed for technology transfer of three types of temperature sensors. The contract will be executed through the centre-Union MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises) ministry consortium.

Besides supplying critical components for Isro's Mars mission in September 2014, the centre has also supplied critical hardware items for Chandrayaan-I, the geo-synchronous satellite launch vehicle, in 2008. "The centre has taken initiatives to constitute an "aerospace consortium" consisting of 16 local MSMEs to help Odisha become a hub of aerospace manufacturing," said centre's managing director S. Maity.