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Location | Sriharikota, Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh, India | ||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 13°43′N 80°14′E / 13.72°N 80.23°E | ||||||||||||
Time zone | UTC+05:30 (IST) | ||||||||||||
Short name | SDSC | ||||||||||||
Operator | ISRO | ||||||||||||
Total launches | 96 | ||||||||||||
Launch pad(s) | Operational: 3 Retired: 1 Planned: 1 | ||||||||||||
SLV/ASLV launch pad launch history | |||||||||||||
Status | Retired | ||||||||||||
First launch | SLV / RS-1, 9 August 1979 | ||||||||||||
Last launch | ASLV-D2 20 September 1993 | ||||||||||||
Associated rockets | SLV-3, ASLV | ||||||||||||
First Launch Pad launch history | |||||||||||||
Status | In service | ||||||||||||
First launch | PSLV-D1/IRS-1E 05:12:00, 20 September 1993 (UTC) | ||||||||||||
Last launch | SSLV/EOS-08 16 August 2024, 03:47 UTC | ||||||||||||
Associated rockets | PSLV (Active) GSLV Mk I (Retired) SSLV (Active) | ||||||||||||
Second Launch Pad launch history | |||||||||||||
Status | In service | ||||||||||||
First launch | PSLV-C6/Cartosat-1 04:44:00, 5 May 2005 (UTC) | ||||||||||||
Last launch | GSLV-F14/INSAT-3DS 17 February 2024, 12:05 UTC | ||||||||||||
Associated rockets | PSLV (Active) GSLV Mk II (Active) LVM3 (Active) | ||||||||||||
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Satish Dhawan Space Centre – SDSC (formerly Sriharikota Range – SHAR),[1] is the primary spaceport of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), located in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
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.
This centre was originally named SHAR (an acronym for Sriharikota Range – mistakenly referred to as Sriharikota High Altitude Range by some people) by Sarabhai. SHAR in Sanskrit also means arrow, symbolic of the nature of activity and that seems to be the significance of the acronym.
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