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India Credit - © Mark Wade Launch Sites in India Balasore. Agency: DRDO. Type: Suborbital Launch Site. Location: Interim Test Range, Balasore Range, Chandipur-On-Sea, Orissa. Latitude: 20.9758. Longitude: 87.0491. Sriharikota. Agency: ISRO. Type: Orbital Launch Site. Location: Sriharikota Range, Andhra Pradesh. Latitude: 13.7374. Longitude: 80.2351. Thumba. Agency: ISRO. Type: Suborbital Launch Site. Location: Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launch Station, Trivandrum, Kerala. Latitude: 8.5314. Longitude: 76.8690. Rockets Developed in India Agni. - intermediate range ballistic missile - Status: Active. Two stage ballistic missile consisting of 1 x Agni + 1 x Prithvi ASLV. - all-solid orbital launch vehicle - Status: Retired 1994. GSLV. - orbital launch vehicle - Status: Active. Indian launcher for geosynchronous satellites using a Lox/LH2 upper stage developed from Russian technology. Prithvi. - short range ballistic missile - Status: Active. Single stage vehicle. First units deployed in 1995. PSLV. - all-solid orbital launch vehicle - Status: Active. Indian third-generation launch vehicle, large enough to carry polar-orbiting earth resources satellites. RH. - sounding rocket - Status: Active. Indian solid propellant sounding rocket family using indigenous rocket motors derived from French Belier / Jericho rocket engine technology. SLV. - all-solid orbital launch vehicle - Status: Retired 1983. Spacecraft Designed in India Aryabhata. - Earth Atmosphere Bhaskara. - Earth Landsat GSat. - Communications Insat 1. - Communications Insat 2. - Communications Insat 3. - Communications IRS. - Earth Landsat METSAT. - Earth Weather Orbital Vehicle. - Manned Spacecraft Rohini. - Earth Landsat Rohini 1A. - Technology Rohini 2. - Technology SRE. - Technology RV SROSS. - Earth Magnetosphere TES. - Surveillance Military Space-related People born in India Bhat. - Nagapathi Chidambar Bhat Indian Payload Specialist Astronaut. Born 1948. Chawla. - Dr Kalpana Chawla American Mission Specialist Astronaut. Born 1 July 1961. Died 1 February 2003. Number of Flights: 2.00. Total Time: 31.63 days. Malhotra. - Ravish Malhotra Indian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 25 December 1943. Nair. - Paramaswaren Radhakrishnan Nair Indian Payload Specialist Astronaut. Born 10 October 1943. Sharma. - Rakesh Sharma Indian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 13 January 1949. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 7.90 days.