Satish Dhawan Space Centre
Interactive map of Satish Dhawan Space Centre | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | 105 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| First Launch Pad launch history | |||||||||||||||||||
| Status | In service | ||||||||||||||||||
| First launch | PSLV-D1/IRS-1E 20 September 1993, 05:12:00 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last launch | PSLV-C62/EOS-N1 12 January 2026, 04:48 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Second Launch Pad launch history | |||||||||||||||||||
| Status | In service | ||||||||||||||||||
| First launch | PSLV-C6/Cartosat-1 5 May 2005, 04:44:00 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last launch | LVM3-M6/BlueBird Block 2 24 December 2025, 03:25 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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.