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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu connected January 17, 2026 (Saturday) announced that the Andhra Pradesh Government was preparing to make a outer launching installation arsenic portion of the Space City task connected the Hope Island successful the Kakinada Bay.
Hope Island, which is simply a portion of the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary successful the Godavari estuary, is implicit 600 km from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (SHAR-ISRO), astatine Sriharikota successful the erstwhile Nellore district.
Addressing the gathering of overseas investors successful renewable energies and officials of the State authorities aft performing ‘bhumi puja’ for the Green Hydrogen and Green Ammonia Production Complex successful Kakinada, Mr. Naidu said, “Soon, we (Andhra Pradesh) volition motorboat satellites from the Hope Island. It volition travel soon, and Kakinada volition person a batch of advantages successful the tract of exertion and innovation.”
“The Greenko Group is evincing involvement successful being a portion of the State government’s Space City task that includes processing outer launching facility. In a caller interaction, Greenko Founder and Group CEO Anil Kumar Chalamalsetty has shown involvement successful the Space City task connected the Hope Island,” said Mr. Naidu.
“Kakinada volition spell to the adjacent level with innovations and technologies erstwhile the Space City task commences,” said Mr. Naidu.
Formed with the sediments brought successful by the Godavari stream a period ago, the 18-km-long spit of land, locally known arsenic Hope Island, serves arsenic a earthy obstruction from calamities and a earthy installation for a harmless navigational way for the cognition of the 2 ports — Kakinada Anchorage Port and Deep-Sea Port.
Opposite to the Hope Island, connected the onshore front, is the basal of the Eastern Naval Command (ENC). The land is inhabited by fisherfolk and is the wintertime location for 42 taxon of birds and a breeding crushed for Olive Ridley turtles.
