Sriharikota is a barrier island off the Bay of Bengal coast located in the Shar Project settlement of Tirupati district in Andhra Pradesh, India. It houses the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, one of the two satellite launch centers in India. Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, the Spaceport of India, is responsible for providing Launch Base Infrastructure for the Indian Space Program. This Centre has the facilities for solid propellant processing, static testing of solid motors, launch vehicle integration and launch operations, range operations comprising telemetry, tracking and command network, and mission control center. The Centre has two launch pads from where the rocket launching operations of PSLV and GSLV are carried out. The mandate for the center is, to produce solid propellant boosters for the launch vehicle programs of ISRO, to provide the infrastructure for qualifying various subsystems and solid rocket motors and carrying out the necessary tests, to provide launch base infrastructure for satellites and launch vehicles. SDSC SHAR has a separate launch pad for launching sounding rockets. The center also provides the necessary launch base infrastructure for sounding rockets of ISRO and for assembly, integration, and launch of sounding rockets and payloads.
