Sriharikota: The Indian Space Research Organisation has acquired land for the proposed rocket launch site in Tamil Nadu where a launch pad would be set up, the chief of the space agency said on Sunday. ISRO chairman S Somanath said the space agency was currently in the process of consolidating the land at Kulasekarapatnam in Thoothukudi district, about 650 kilometres from here.
"The second launch site is at Kulasekarapatnam (in Tamil Nadu), we have already acquired the land. Currently, we are consolidating the land to ensure it is all within our boundary wall," he told reporters here, after the successful launch of 36 satellites on board the LVM3-M2/OneWeb India-1 Mission.
