SLV/ASLV launch pad(s?)

• SLV/ASLV launch pad(s?) by William Graham on 08 Jul, 2013 17:40
• I've always assumed that SLV and ASLV used the same launch pad, but when I tried to look up the old pad on Google Maps I noticed what looks like a hangar on rails a couple hundred metres south.
  
  https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=13.665441,80.227087&spn=0.003002,0.005284
  
  I can't find many images of the SLV which show the launch pad, but the few that I have seen suggest that the pad was similar to Vandenberg's SLC-5, with the rocket integrated horizontally and the tower used to raise the rocket to vertical, support it, and then launch it. So I'm now wondering whether the hangar is in fact the old SLV pad (presumably being rolled away before the rocket is erected), with the pad slightly further north being built later, specifically for ASLV.
  
  Does anyone know if this is correct, or anything more about these complexes?

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• #1 by isro-watch on 09 Jul, 2013 03:24
• The last time I saw the ASLV pad, it was covered in thick bushes..abandoned years ago...
  
  SLV-3 as you mentioned, was assembled horizontally and moved to the launch pad. But, as per my knowledge, SLV-3 used a different structure for the launch.
  
  I expect all these to be cleared in the next few months as they are planning the third launch pad at Sriharikota
  
  
• #2 by K210 on 09 Jul, 2013 12:12
• I thought the SLV/ASLV launch pad was converted into the First launch Pad?
• #3 by William Graham on 09 Jul, 2013 12:22
• Quote from: K210 on 09 Jul, 2013 12:12

  I thought the SLV/ASLV launch pad was converted into the First launch Pad?
  

  
  FLP is confusingly named - it's caught me out in the past - assuming SLV and ASLV used separate pads then it is at least the fourth pad (there's a sounding rocket complex somewhere at SHAR, but I can't find it on a map).
  
  ASLV was still flying while FLP was being built - indeed, the last ASLV launch didn't occur until after the first PSLV.
• #4 by isro-watch on 22 Aug, 2013 02:47
• Yes, there are/were 4 different pads  and 1 sounding rocket complex
• #5 by Steven Pietrobon on 22 Aug, 2013 08:34
• According to the "Space Technology" book by Kenneth Gatland, what you show is the "Liquid booster satellite launch complex". The SLV-3 pad is more south than that. The remains of the pad might be at +13° 38' 52.44", +80° 13' 30.82".
• #6 by antriksh on 26 Aug, 2013 02:38

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• #7 by Jayadevp13 on 09 Nov, 2013 03:49
• But take a look at these two links people. Link 1 - http://books.google.co.in/books?id=XD1ZaYbiWwMC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=SLV+Launch+Pad&source=bl&ots=YDz1YF0km8&sig=7VNYn6HAHiHYX8xBPUzl4NnOqZo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=26R7Uq-9JsH9rAeR24CoDA&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBThQ#v=onepage&q=SLV%20Launch%20Pad&f=false and Link 2 - http://www.astronautix.com/sites/sritaslv.htm. Initially the one which was SLV launch pad was later used as an ASLV launch complex.
• #8 by Jayadevp13 on 09 Nov, 2013 03:57
• Quote from: isro-watch on 22 Aug, 2013 02:47

  Yes, there are/were 4 different pads  and 1 sounding rocket complex
  

  
  But how can you say so? Do you have some sort of reference to justify it? If yes then do reply.