· SRIHARIKOTASatish Dhawan Space Centre is India's primary spaceport, on the barrier island of Sriharikota off the coast of Andhra Pradesh. Launch Library 2 counts 104 launches from this site to date. Two pads are in regular use, the First Launch Pad and the Second Launch Pad. Everything below is written into this page by the server, so it reads the same for people and for machines.
Every launch currently on the books for this site, earliest first. Only rows with a clock time have a confirmed liftoff time. Where a launch provider has given no more than a month, a quarter or a year, that is what you see, because a made-up time would be worse than none.
| LIFTOFF (UTC) | ROCKET · MISSION | PROVIDER | PAD | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
date not yet set | GSLV Mk. II GISAT-1A (EOS-05) | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III) Gaganyaan-1 | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster TV-D2 | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | GSLV Mk. II | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | GSLV Mk. II | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | GSLV Mk. II | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | GSLV Mk. II IRNSS-1L (NVS-03) | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III) Gaganyaan-2 | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III) Gaganyaan-3 | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | PSLV ConnectedCosmos | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | PSLV RISAT-2A | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | PSLV TDS-01 | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | TBD |
Two pads, both busy, and a wider range of rocket sizes than most sites on this map. India flies everything from a small satellite launcher to a heavy vehicle rated for crew from the same island.
The older of the two, and the one that carries most of the PSLV traffic in the record. The PSLV is the workhorse of the Indian programme and flies in several configurations, distinguished by how many strap-on boosters it carries.
The pad for the heavy vehicles. LVM3, still often called GSLV Mk III, flies from here, as does the GSLV Mk II. It takes the larger share of the upcoming schedule.
The record also contains flights by private Indian operators alongside ISRO, which makes Sriharikota one of the few sites on this map where a national agency and a commercial newcomer share the same ground.
Yes, and this is the one site on this list where the operator runs a public viewing gallery itself and charges nothing for it. That makes Sriharikota unusual: at the American sites, the closest views are either commercial tickets or public roads, not a facility the space agency built for spectators.
SDSC SHAR states plainly that it does not charge visitors anything to watch a launch from the launch view gallery, and that it is entirely free of cost. The gallery was inaugurated on 31 March 2019. The centre notes that the gallery is currently open to the public while other facilities are still being prepared.
Registration runs through the centre's own portal. SDSC SHAR asks visitors to have a government-issued identity document ready, naming an Aadhaar card or a driving licence as examples, together with a mobile number and an email address. Registration opens per launch, so it is tied to a specific flight rather than to a date you choose.
Registration opens and closes per launch, and a slipped date moves it. Check the portal close to the flight rather than far in advance.
What actually flew, most recent first. A mixed record, because the same two pads serve the small SSLV, the medium PSLV and the heavy LVM3.
| LIFTOFF (UTC) | ROCKET · MISSION | PROVIDER | PAD | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vikram-I Demo Flight | Skyroot | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | SUCCESS | |
| PSLV-DL EOS-N1 and others | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | FAILURE | |
| Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III) BlueBird 6 (Block 2 #1) | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | SUCCESS | |
| Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III) CMS-03 (GSAT-7R) | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | SUCCESS | |
| GSLV Mk. II NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | SUCCESS | |
| PSLV XL EOS-09 (RISAT-1B) | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | FAILURE | |
| GSLV Mk. II IRNSS-1K (NVS-02) | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | SUCCESS | |
| PSLV-CA SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | SUCCESS | |
| PSLV XL Proba-3 | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | SUCCESS | |
| SSLV EOS-08/Microsat-2C | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | SUCCESS | |
| GSLV Mk. II INSAT-3DS | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad | SUCCESS | |
| PSLV-DL XPoSat | ISRO | Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad | SUCCESS |
For the same two reasons that put the American pads on the Florida coast, applied to the other side of the world. Sriharikota is a barrier island on the east coast, so east of the pads there is open Bay of Bengal: spent stages and any failure fall into water rather than onto people. And at roughly 13 degrees north the site sits closer to the equator than any American launch site, which means a rocket launched eastward gains more free speed from the rotation of the Earth. On that measure Sriharikota has a better hand than Cape Canaveral.
Size and job. The PSLV is the medium workhorse and has flown the majority of Indian missions, including planetary ones; it appears in several variants that differ mainly in the number of strap-on boosters. The GSLV Mk II is heavier and was built to place communications satellites into high orbits. LVM3, still widely called GSLV Mk III, is the heavy vehicle and the one rated for the crewed programme. The SSLV is the newest and smallest, aimed at single small satellites.
NET is short for no earlier than. It is the earliest moment a launch can happen, not a promise. A launch can slip later by minutes or by months, and it will never lift off before the time shown. The status tells you how firm the date is: GO means confirmed for the listed time, TBC means the date is to be confirmed, TBD means it is still to be determined. Rows on this page that show only a month or a quarter are launches where the provider has not committed to a date at all.
From Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs, refetched by the T-Rocket server and written straight into this page. The site description, the pad notes and the viewing section are written by T-Rocket from the sources named against each entry. What every value means and how fresh it is, is documented under data sources. T-Rocket is not an official source: only the launch provider can confirm a launch.