ISRO commissions world’s third-largest wind tunnel in Thiruvananthapuram

THE Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) created history by commissioning the world’s third-largest hypersonic wind tunnel at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram. A wind tunnel is used to study the effects of air flowing past a solid object - in ISRO’s case, space vehicles.