Places

Every place in the encyclopedia.

• ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network — ISRO's tracking network, headquartered in Bengaluru. Its ground stations follow every ISRO rocket and run its Earth-observation, science and deep-space missions.
• Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota — India's spaceport, on Sriharikota island in Andhra Pradesh. ISRO launches its satellite launchers from here.
• Space Applications Centre — ISRO's centre in Ahmedabad that designs satellite payloads, such as cameras, radars, transponders and navigation payloads, and turns their data into everyday uses.
• SSLV Launch Complex, Kulasekarapattinam — India's second spaceport, being built at Kulasekarapattinam in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district, mainly for SSLV launches to polar orbit and for private rockets.
• Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station — The rocket station near Thiruvananthapuram where India's space programme began, with the launch of a Nike-Apache sounding rocket on 21 November 1963.
• U R Rao Satellite Centre — ISRO's lead centre for building satellites, in Bengaluru. It designs and assembles India's communication, navigation, remote-sensing and science satellites.
• Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre — ISRO's lead centre for rockets, in Thiruvananthapuram. It designs and develops ISRO's launch vehicles, from sounding rockets to PSLV, GSLV and LVM3.