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The Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, the Spaceport of India, is responsible for providing launch base infrastructure for the Indian Space Programme. The centre has the facilities for solid propellant processing, static testing of solid motors, launch vehicle integration and launch operations, range operations comprising telemetry, tracking and command network and mission control centre. The SDSC has two launch pads from where the rocket launching operations of PSLV and GSLV are carried out. The mandate for the centre is to produce solid propellant boosters for the launch vehicle programmes of ISRO, to provide the infrastructure for qualifying various subsystems and solid rocket motors and carrying out the necessary tests, to provide launch base infrastructure for satellites and launch vehicles. The SDSC SHAR has a separate launch pad for launching sounding rockets. The centre also provides the necessary launch base infrastructure for sounding rockets of ISRO and for assembly, integration and launch of sounding rockets and payloads.