Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Also known as SDSC, SDSC-SHAR, SDSC SHAR

Indian space launch site in Andhra Pradesh

Key facts

Location: Sriharikota , Tirupati district , Andhra Pradesh , India
Time zone: UTC+05:30 ( IST )
Short name: SDSC
Operator: ISRO
Launch pad s: Operational: 3 , Retired: 1 , Planned: 1
Status: Retired
First launch: SLV / RS-1 , 9 August 1979
Last launch: ASLV-D2 , 20 September 1993
Associated rockets: SLV-3 ASLV

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.shar.gov.in/sdscshar
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Satish Dhawan Space Centre – SDSC (formerly Sriharikota Range – SHAR) is the primary spaceport of ISRO, located in Sriharikota, an island in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The spaceport is located on an island off the east coast of India, surrounded by Pulicat Lake and the Bay of Bengal. The distance of Sriharikota from Chennai is 105 km (65 mi) and from Nellore is 119 km (74mi).

The Centre currently has three functioning launch pads used for launching sounding rockets, polar satellites and geosynchronous satellites. India's Lunar exploration probes Chandrayaan-1, Chandrayaan-2, Chandrayaan-3, Mars Orbiter Mission, solar research mission Aditya-L1 and space observatory XPoSat were also launched from SDSC.