- ISRO on February 27, 2019 honoured surviving members who developed ‘Mrinal’, the Indian space programme’s first composite solid propellant for launch vehicles.
- The surviving members of the Propellant Engineering Division of VSSC gathered at the centre which was addressed by the ISRO chairman K. Sivan through video from Bengaluru.
- Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram had celebrated 50th anniversary of Mrinal on February 21, 2019.
- The propellant was named ‘Mrinal’, after Mrinalini Sarabhai, the noted classical dancer and wife of Vikram Sarabhai, the father of the Indian space programme.
- Mrinal propellant was used on February 21, 1969 to fly a Rohini series RH-75 sounding rocket, which was the designated Dynamic Test Vehicle (DTV), from Thumba.
