16 Facts About Sea Launch

Approach Sea Launch LLC used was to assemble the launcher on a purpose-built ship Sea Launch Commander in Nimitz Rd.

Sea Launch was established in 1995 as a consortium of four companies from Norway, Russia, Ukraine and the United States, managed by Boeing with participation from the other shareholders.

In mid-2014, following the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the subsequent unrest in the eastern part of the country, there were a number of Russian media reports that indicated Sea Launch may be planning to inactivate the Odyssey launch platform.

Sea Launch formally denied those reports in June 2014, indicating it is continuing to buy Zenit rockets from Ukraine, and is still promoting its launch services to the international market, even in August 2014.

However, in August 2014, Sea Launch conducted a reduction of their staff and removed from operating status both the Commander and Odyssey vessels in order to reduce operating costs during a period where they have no launches scheduled until late 2015.

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The launch and assembly ship Sea Launch Commander arrived in Russia on March 17th, 2020 and was moored at the Slavyanka Shipyard after customs procedures.

Sea Launch said that before its handover to the company S7 all space launch control equipment was dismantled.

Sea Launch was founded by four companies from four countries, which shared the original ownership of offshore Cayman Islands-registered Sea Launch.

Ship "Sea Launch" registered Monrovia After reorganising from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010, a majority share of the company was acquired by Russian interests.

Sea Launch has a reciprocal agreement with Arianespace and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries through the Launch Services Alliance, providing assurance in case either company's system is not able to launch a payload for reasons of reliability, capacity, backlog, or otherwise.

In 1999, shortly after the company was founded, the Sea Launch consortium claimed that their launch-related operating costs would be lower than a land-based equivalent due in part to reduced staff requirements.

Sea Launch has launched 36 rockets with 32 successes and 1 partial success as of March 2019.

The Sea Launch project was suspended for two months during the investigation.

At about the same time United States Customs Service attempted to block Sea Launch from bringing Zenit-3SL rockets into California for assembly without a munitions import licence.

In May 1999 Sea Launch reached an agreement with the ITWF, which allows crew members to use ITWF inspectors.

Sea Launch was awarded the Space Foundation's Space Achievement Award in 2000.