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Sriharikota, a remote inaccessible island, was acquired in the year 1969 to establish a national range for launching of multistage rockets and satellite launch vehicles. Features like nearness to the Equator, largely uninhabited island, and good launch azimuth corridor for various missions, situated on the east coast of India, identifies SHAR as an ideal spaceport. Sriharikota is located 18 km east of Sullurupeta, a small town on Chennai - Kolkata National Highway between Nellore and Chennai. Sriharikota covers an area of about 43,360 acres (175 sq.km) with a coastline of 50 km.

SHAR, popularly known as Spaceport of India, is located at Sriharikota a spindle shaped island. This space centre was renamed as Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR on September 5, 2002 in memory of Prof. Satish Dhawan, former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

SDSC SHAR embarked its journey into space by launching RH 125 from Sriharikota on October 9, 1971. Launch facilities were set up in early eighties, for the first generation ISRO satellite launch vehicles, namely SLV 3 and ASLV. SDSC SHAR houses the necessary infrastructure for launching sounding rockets, satellite launch vehicle missions (PSLV/ GSLV/ LVM3) to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO), Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO), controlled reentry missions & deep space missions.