The Indian
Space Research Organisation is the space agency of the Government of
India and has its headquarters in the city of Bengaluru .
The Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) operates through a countrywide network of centres.
- Sensors and payloads are developed at the Space Applications Centre
in Ahmedabad.
- Satellites are designed, developed, assembled, and tested at
the U R Rao Satellite Centre (formerly the ISRO Satellite Centre) in
Bangalore.
- Launch vehicles are developed at the Vikram Sarabhai Space
Centre in Thiruvananthapuram.
- Launches take place at the Satish Dhawan
Space Centre on Sriharikota Island, near Chennai.
- The Master Control Facilities
for geostationary satellite station keeping are located at Hassan
and Bhopal.
- Reception and processing facilities for remote-sensing data
are at the National Remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad.
ISRO’s commercial
arm is Antrix Corporation, which has its headquarters in Bangalore.