Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

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The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) is located at Thumba near Trivandrum, a city of the Kerala state in India. It is a major space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),where space vehicles are developed for the Indian satellite programme.

The Vikram Sarabhai Space Center is ISRO's one of the main Research & Development establishment. Its facilities were built near the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS), on the west coast of India, about 10 miles (16km) north of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala State. Named after the late Professor Vikram Sarabhai (1919-1971), founder of the Indian Space Program. VSSC is an entirely national facility working on the development of sounding rockets; Rohini and Menaka, launchers; ASLV, PSLV and GSLV, along with the solid motor program.

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