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Fire at godown at Sriharikota Space Centre

Hyderabad: Fire broke out yesterday morning at a godown of a private agency at Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, destroying spare parts and machinery components stored inside, police



“We are conducting further probe,” district Superintendent of Police P V S Ramakrishna told PTI over phone.

Senior officials of the Space Centre inspected the site.

The Space Centre, which was popularly known as SHAR (Sriharikota Range), was renamed as ‘Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR' on September 5,2002, in the fond memory of Prof Satish Dhawan, former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

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