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	The Hindu : National : Next to French Guiana, SHAR may emerge as the most favoured launch destination
		Sriharikota: With the past 11 missions being consecutive successes, Sriharikota may soon emerge as the most favoured destination to launch satellites, after French Guiana.
		This is the ideal launch frequency," said M. Annamalai, Director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
		Sriharikota, popularly known as SHAR, had more facilities than French Guiana.
	www.hindu.com /2006/07/02/stories/2006070200081300.htm (619 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sriharikota
		Sriharikota, is an island in the Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh State, lies along the east of Pulicat Lake and is reached by road from Madras.
		SRIHARIKOTA, MAY 26: Once a small settlement of Yanadi tribals who eked out their livelihood by collecting, honey, beewax and gum for the Britishers, this spindle-shaped island on the Bay of Bengal has now become a major commercial spaceport in the world.
		Sriharikota range, popularly known as `Shar' is situated on an island formed some two hundred years ago, off Sullurpeta, a small town in Andhra Pradesh.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sriharikota (461 words)

	tScholars.com \| Sriharikota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sriharikota (also Sriharikote) is a barrier island off the coast of Andhra Pradesh in India, around 80 km north of Chennai.
		It houses India's only satellite launch centre in the Satish Dhawan Space Centre and is used by the Indian Space Research Organisation to launch satellites using multi-stage rockets such as the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.
		Sriharikota separates the Pulicat Lake from the Bay of Bengal, and is home to the town of Pulicat.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Sriharikota (128 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Frontpage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Also, all the expansion activity on at Sriharikota is bound to leapfrog the spaceport, situated on a 175-sq-km island flanked by the backwaters of the Bay of Bengal and the Pulicat lake, to a commercial launch centre.
		Sriharikota is connected to the mainland with only one road from the shores of the Pulicat lake.
		Sriharikota is also best positioned for an eastern launch that most space powers look for.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060701/asp/frontpage/story_6423769.asp (533 words)

	Sriharikota
		Sriharikota ist ein Raketenstartplatz an der Südostküste Indiens, bei 13°37' nördliche Breite und 80°18' östliche Länge.
		Sowohl Raumfahrtraketen wie PSLV oder GSLV, als auch zahlreiche Forschungsraketen werden in Sriharikota gestartet.
		Sriharikota verfügt über zwei Startanlagen zum Starten von Satellitenraketen, wobei die moderne zweite Anlage 2005 zum ersten mal zum Einsatz kam.
	www.katastrophenalarm.de /Sriharikota.html (76 words)

	Satellite launches propels Sriharikota to fame
		The 150 sq km, tinyisland, with a 62 km long coastline, has key advantages in housing the country's launch pad as ISRO could use the earth's east to west rotation for its launch operations towards east.
		Despite its advanced activities, the ISRO had taken pains to conserve the island, a veritable paradise for orinthologistgs and nature lovers attracting thousands of birds from as far away as Siberia and Australia as soon as the north east monsoon arrives.
		SRIHARIKOTA: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's ready wit and sarcasm came to the fore while addressing the media after the successful launch of PSLV-C2 here on Wednesday noon.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990527/ige27017.html (615 words)

	News India-Times.com, Online Edition
		The injured were initially taken to the hospital at the space center before being airlifted to a hospital at Chennai.
		Sriharikota is an island off the coast of Andhra Pradesh linked to Nellore by a bridge.
		Explaining that the cause of the accidental blast was a segment of a test rocket motor at the solid propellant space booster plant at Sriharikota, the official said a nine-member team was engaged in the operation at the time of the mishap.
	www.newsindia-times.com /nit/2004/03/05/india-17-top.html (610 words)

	SRIHARIKOTA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sriharikota будет островом с свободного полета Andhra Pradesh в Индии.
		Оно расквартировывает ряд Sriharikota запуская, используемый индийским агенством космоса, ISRO для того чтобы запустить спутники.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.faktoru.com /wiki/ru/sr/Sriharikota.htm (57 words)

	Navhind Times on the Web: India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sriharikota, July 10: The country’s ambitious space programme suffered a blow today when a launch vehicle that was to put a communications satellite into orbit exploded moments after launch here but scientists pledged to come up with a new satellite within a year.
		The mission control at the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Sriharikota station gave the command to destroy the 2,168-kg satellite the rocket was carrying in order to prevent any disaster to populated areas.
		The INSAT 4C satellite was to be placed 36,000 km from earth, by the 49-meter tall GSLV from the second new state-of-the art launch pad at the Sriharikota space station, 80 km north of Chennai.
	www.navhindtimes.com /articles.php?Story_ID=071126 (702 words)

	SPACE.com -- India Launches Second GSLV Rocket with GSAT
		The payload is 573 pounds (260 kilograms) heavier than the one launched on the first GSLV flight in April 2001 at Sriharikota island off the east coast, 68 miles (110 kilometers) north of Chennai.
		About seventeen minutes after lift off, GSAT-2 was successfully placed in an orbit of 180.04 km perigee (nearest point to earth) and an apogee (farthest point to earth) 36,000 km with an orbital inclination of 19.2 degree with respect to the equator.
		The performance data of the GSLV was telemetered to the ground stations in Sriharikota, Port Blair and stations at Brunei and Biak in Indonesia which were networked with SHAR Centre.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/gslv_launch_030508.html (1077 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sriharikota, Oct. 17: The Indian Space Research Organisation today said the country’s first “unmanned mission to the moon” was on course but ruled out a manned mission in the near future.
		The satellite for the purpose should be able to go up to 350,000 km, far more than the present 30,000 km an Isro launch vehicle can handle, he emphasised.
		Nair also disclosed that the “second launch pad” being built at Sriharikota for Rs 400 crore would be ready for use from the middle of next year.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1031018/asp/nation/story_2473901.asp (248 words)

	India Joins Elite Space Club
		There was tension in the air at Sriharikota Range (SHAR), and on the faces of engineers, scientists, technicians and former space managers who came to watch the launch.
		It was separated some 5,000 km from the launchpad, Sriharikota, and re-oriented to avoid any collision with the satellite.
		Seventeen minutes after lift off, GSAT-I was successfully placed in an orbit of 181 km perigee and an apogee of 32,051 km with an orbit inclination of 19.2 degree with respect to the equator.
	mod.nic.in /samachar/15july2001/html/ch3.htm (824 words)

	Sriharikota blast claims 6 lives - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A fire at the country’s premier rocket launch centre led to an explosion as highly inflammable propellant was being loaded onto a testing motor at the facility.
		At least six persons were killed and three injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion triggered by a fire in the solid propellant space booster plant at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, about 180 km north of here, on Monday afternoon, according to reports reaching here.
		ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair has rushed to Sriharikota to supervise operations at the centre, where fire fighters are battling the blaze, ISRO Secretary S K Das said.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/feb242004/i2.asp (414 words)

	The Hindu : National : Two launch campaigns gathering speed at Sriharikota
		EASILY RECOVERABLE: A dummy SRE dropped from a helicopter, being recovered from the Pulicat Lake near Sriharikota in a drop-test conducted in 2004.
		CHENNAI: Two launch campaigns are gathering speed at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh —; one for the take-off of the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) in July and the other for the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in August.
		These SRES fell on land, in the Pulicat Lake near Sriharikota and the Bay of Bengal around the island.
	www.hindu.com /2006/06/04/stories/2006060400051100.htm (667 words)

	Sriharikota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The first Indian mission to the Moon is slated for lift-off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, in March 2008.
		The commissioning of the $95 million second launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh state last year was in anticipation of the boost in launch business...
		As a first step towards this, it will launch a Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE) from Sriharikota in January 2007, Madhavan Nair said.
	www.33beat.com /Sriharikota.html (268 words)

	Fire in Sriharikota, six killed
		Six people were killed on the spot and three suffered serious burn injuries in an explosion at Sriharikota High Altitude Range (SHAR) Space Centre, 120 km off Chennai, on Monday afternoon.
		According to the police, the accident occurred when a rocket motor being tested caught fire and exploded while being filled with highly inflammable fuel at the Solid Propellant Space Booster Plant (SPROBP).
		ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair has rushed to Sriharikota to supervise operations at the centre.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/feb/23fire.htm (239 words)

	Disaster strikes at India’s space center Sriharikota - Science News - Playfuls.com - Science & Technology
		While everyone is eyeing Discovery’s evolution near the International Space Station and is concerned with its safe return home, another tragic event happens on Earth, at Sriharikota Space Center in India.
		The Indian television showed images that reminded the tragic launch of Challenger space shuttle in 1986, with the rocket and the satellite bursting into flames and eventually falling into pieces in Bengal Bay, after about a minute since take-off and at a 70-100km altitude.
		The launch took place from the Sriharikota launch site off the country's southeastern coast in the Bay of Bengal.
	www.playfuls.com /news_001531_Disaster_strikes_at_Indias_space_center_Sriharikota.html (578 words)

	GIS News:Recent fire at Indian Space Centre shall not disrupt space projects
		He had asked a seven-member commitee of scientists, both serving and retired, to probe the cause of the fire and submit their findings within six weeks.
		Indian missile experts, meanwhile, described it as "providence" that the development of the nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile, first tested as a prototype in 1989, had been kept away from the island space centre.
		The area surrounding Sriharikota is a high-security zone and kept under constant watch by Indian security forces.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /news/viewn.asp?id=GIS:N_tjhodfwrus (449 words)

	Sriharikota Space Center (SHAR) - Indian Space Facilities
		Sriharikota Space Center (SHAR) - Indian Space Facilities
		The Sriharikota Space Center (SHAR) is under the jurisdiction of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
		In addition, India is in the process of developing a new GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) jointly with Russia for placing satellites in geostationary orbit, and this rocket as well is planned for launch from SHAR.
	www.fas.org /spp/guide/india/facility/shar.htm (152 words)

	USATODAY.com - Fatal explosion rips through India Space Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Press Trust of India reported that six workers were charred to death.
		ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair rushed to Sriharikota to personally supervise the operations and a high-level Committee has been constituted to look into the cause of the accident, Dar said.
		Sriharikota, which is 100 kilometers north of Chennai, is the main launch complex of ISRO.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-02-24-space-blaze_x.htm (316 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sriharikota
		The state was created in 1956 from the Telugu-speaking portions of Madras (now Tamil Nadu) and Hyderabad states.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Sriharikota" at HighBeam.
		2nd Ld-Writethru: Six killed in explosion in Sriharikota in southeast India.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Sriharikota (157 words)

	Press Release
		With this launch, India has demonstrated its capability to launch communication satellites, into geostationary transfer orbit with perigee (nearest to the earth) of 180 km and an apogee (farthest to the earth) of 36,000 km.
		The cryogenic stage, which carried 12.5 tonne of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen burned for 693 seconds taking the satellite and vehicle equipment bay to an altitude of 195 km and increasing the velocity to 10.17 km per second as required for placing the satellite in the geostationary transfer orbit.
		The performance data of the GSLV was tele-metered to the ground stations in Sriharikota, Port Blair and stations at Brunie and Biak in Indonesia which were networked with SHAR Centre.
	www.indianembassy.org /press_release/2001/april/apr_18.htm (950 words)

	Amazon.com: Sriharikota: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		India's main launch center is on Sriharikota Island, northeast of Madras.
		IRS-P3 and IRS-P4 was launched from Sriharikota, India, using a Polar Satellite Launched Vehicle (PSLV).
		Propellant Booster Plant at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island on 23 February,...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Sriharikota&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (835 words)

	domain-B : indian business : organisation : GSLV F 01 launches Edusat successfully
		Venkatachari Jagannathan reports from Sriharikota the launch of the Edusat and what it means to the country's efforts in spreading higher education
		Sriharikota: At exactly 4.01 pm, with a huge tongue of thick and rich orange flame at its tail and a white bulbous head, gleaming at the top, housing the 1,950kg Edusat India's Geo Synchronous Satellite Vehicle (GSLV F 01) valued at Rs160 crore — rose slowly into the blue sky.
		As a flaming witness to the jubilant cheering by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) officials and journalists on the terrace of SDSC and of the people perched on nearby rooftops, the 49-metre high vehicle (weighing 414 tons) rose majestically to escape the earth's gravitational pull, leaving behind an anaconda like trail of white smoke.
	www.domainb.com /organisation/isro/20040921_edusat.html (1290 words)

	rediff.com: GSLV ready to take off (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Exactly three weeks after the GSLV launch was aborted by a computer, ISRO has said that the launcher will take off from Sriharikota on April 18.
		This decision was taken and confirmed at a meeting of ISRO's top brass at Sriharikota over the past two days, after the exact condition of the launcher was evaluated.
		ISRO chairman Dr K Kasturirangan, Sriharikota Space Station Director K Narayanan, advisor R Aravamudan and others were present at the high level meeting, at which it was unanimously decided that the launch was a go.
	us.rediff.com /news/2001/apr/07gslv1.htm (359 words)

	A successful recovery
		The test conducted over the Pulicat lake signals that the Indian Space Research Organisation is on track to launching the Space Capsule Recovery Experiment, which will enable India to join a select group of countries with the knowhow.
		As the helicopter took off from Sriharikota, a cameraman's walkie-talkie erupted into life.
		The Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota looks after the capsule recovery operations.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2119/stories/20040924002409600.htm (1062 words)

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