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Sriharikota
Sriharikota
is a
barrier island
off the
Bay of Bengal
coast located in the Indian
state
of
Andhra Pradesh
,
India
. It houses the
Satish Dhawan Space Centre
, one of the two satellite launch centers in India with the other being the
Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station
in
Thiruvananthapuram
.
Indian Space Research Organisation
launch satellites using multistage rockets such as the
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
and the
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle
from Sriharikota.
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