Research Projects

Fuels such as Hydrazine, MMH are in use for spacecraft propulsion since 1960s. Due to the recent environmental concerns, green alternative propellants are being explored to replace the existing hazardous and carcinogenic propellants. DMAZ (2-Dimethyl amino ethyl azide) is a new energetic, storable, non toxic and non carcinogenic liquid fuel. It has similar physical properties as MMH. Already it is demonstrated to be hypergolic with N2O4. Worldwide it is being investigated as a greener replacement of MMH and to work with hydrogen peroxide as oxidizer in green hypergolic bipropellant systems. Under this project, an attempt is being made to develop DMAZ fuel which is hypergolic with hydrogen peroxide

The project being undertaken by ISRO in collaboration with academia is directly or indirectly beneficial to the society.