Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC)
	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	95
Launch pad(s)	Operational: 2 ; Retired: 1 ; Planned: 1
SLV/ASLV launch pad launch history
Status	Retired
First launch	SLV / RS-1, 9 August 1979
Last launch	ASLV-D2 September 20, 1993
Associated rockets	SLV-3, ASLV
First Launch Pad launch history
Status	In service
First launch	PSLV-D1/IRS-1E 05:12:00, September 20, 1993 (UTC)
Last launch	PSLV-C58/XPoSat 01 January 2024, 9:10 AM IST
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, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
Last launch	GSLV-F14/INSAT-3DS 17 February 2024, 12:05 UTC
Associated rockets	PSLV (Active); GSLV Mk II (Active); LVM3 (Active)

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.

^ 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 – 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.

[: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 – 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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