Indian orbital launches are conducted from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, which is at

ThiruvananthapuramCorrect answerYour answerSriharikotaCorrect answerYour answerAhmedabadCorrect answerYour answerBengaluruCorrect answerYour answer

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The Satish Dhawan Space Centre is at Sriharikota, an island on the coast of Andhra Pradesh.
A coastal site on the east lets a rocket drop its spent stages over the sea while flying east, which is the direction that gains most from the Earth's rotation.
The other cities named are all ISRO centres, but they build and control rather than launch.

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The geography is the reason, not an accident: launch sites are coastal and as near the equator as the country allows.

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