Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre
	LVM3 M3 on the SLP with 36 OneWeb satellites (2023).
Location	Sriharikota, Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh, India
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	101
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	PSLV-C61/EOS-09 (RISAT-1B); 18 May 2025, 00:29 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-F15/NVS-02 (IRNSS-1K); 29 January 2025, 00:53 UTC
Associated rockets	PSLV (Active); GSLV (Active); LVM3 (Active)
Status
Third Launch Pad launch history
Status	Planned
Associated; rockets	LVM3 (Future); NGLV (Future); ;
ALP-01 (Dhanush) Launch Pad launch history
Status	In Service
Launches	1
First launch	30 May 2024; Agnibaan SOrTeD
Last launch	30 May 2024; Agnibaan SOrTeD
Associated; rockets	Agnibaan SOrTeD (Active); Agnibaan (Future); ;

Satish Dhawan Space Centre – SDSC (formerly Sriharikota Range – SHAR)^[1] is the primary spaceport of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), located in Sriharikota, Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh. 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).

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.

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.

^ Rao, P. V. Manoranjan; B. N. Suresh; V. P. Balagangadharan, eds. (2015). "4.1 The Spaceport of ISRO – K. Narayana". From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet: India's Space Journey. India: Harper Collins. p. 328. ISBN 9789351776901. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2018. This centre was originally named SHAR (an acronym for Sriharikota Range) by Sarabhai. SHAR in Sanskrit also means arrow, symbolic of the nature of activity and that seems to be the significance of the acronym.

[:0-1] Rao, P. V. Manoranjan; B. N. Suresh; V. P. Balagangadharan, eds. (2015). "4.1 The Spaceport of ISRO – K. Narayana". From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet: India's Space Journey. India: Harper Collins. p. 328. ISBN 9789351776901. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2018. This centre was originally named SHAR (an acronym for Sriharikota Range) 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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