Satish Dhawan Space Centre
Satish Dhawan Space Centre – SDSC (formerly Sriharikota Range – SHAR), is the primary spaceport of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), located in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
| Location | Sriharikota, Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 13.72°N 80.23°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+05:30 (IST) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short name | SDSC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | ISRO | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total launches | 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Launch pad(s) | Operational: 2 Retired: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First launch | SLV / RS-1, 9 August 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last launch | PSLV-DL / XPoSat, 1 January 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Centre currently has two 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 in SDSC.
Originally called Sriharikota Range (SHAR), the centre was renamed on 5 September 2002 as a tribute to ISRO's former chairman Satish Dhawan with retaining its original acronym and is referred as SDSC-SHAR.
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