TAS has an article essentially complaining that the hardware stripped from Odyssey and Sea Launch Commander was somehow specifically to prevent them competing with SpaceX. Seems to be pure sabre-rattling given the stripping happened months ago and was entirely expected as part of the sale and transfer due to ITAR.
MOSCOW, September 21. / TASS /. The future of the Sea Launch floating cosmodrome should be determined in the near future. This was announced by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday during the scientific-practical conference "Orbit of Youth"."Soon the fate of the sea launch will be definitively determined," Rogozin said.The head of Roscosmos added that it is planned to adapt the floating spaceport for the launch of promising Soyuz-5 carrier rockets.The Sea Launch cosmodrome consists of the Odyssey floating launch platform and the command vessel. The program operated until 2014 - 32 Zenit missile launches were carried out from a platform based off the coast of the United States. In 2014, the launch activities of Sea Launch were suspended, and in September 2016, the S7 group of companies became the owner of the rocket and space complex.
ISTR that the engine section will be 3.9m & the vehicle flares out to 4.1m above that.
https://tass.ru/kosmos/12464849QuoteMOSCOW, September 21. / TASS /. The future of the Sea Launch floating cosmodrome should be determined in the near future. This was announced by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday during the scientific-practical conference "Orbit of Youth"."Soon the fate of the sea launch will be definitively determined," Rogozin said.The head of Roscosmos added that it is planned to adapt the floating spaceport for the launch of promising Soyuz-5 carrier rockets.The Sea Launch cosmodrome consists of the Odyssey floating launch platform and the command vessel. The program operated until 2014 - 32 Zenit missile launches were carried out from a platform based off the coast of the United States. In 2014, the launch activities of Sea Launch were suspended, and in September 2016, the S7 group of companies became the owner of the rocket and space complex.Isn't Soyuz 5 a little too big for Ocean Odyssey and Commander? I thought they would be integrating the Soyuz 6 with RD-180 engine on Sea Launch.
Soyuz-5 diameter is 4.1 m, compared to 3.9 m for Zenit or an increase of 5%. Some of the handling equipment might need to be changed, but there's plenty of room available on the launch platforms, so space should not be a problem.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irtysh_%28rocket%29https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenit_%28rocket_family%29
Google Maps shows both ships still in Slavyanka https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8712036,131.3935625,496m/data=!3m1!1e3According to Google Earth, this was taken in May 2021.Using lower resolution Sentinel-2 imagery we can see that they're both still there as of 2021-11-15.
Sea Launch have no future if Russia moves into Ukraine, IMO. Economic sanctions will be applied that will block anyone from signing a new commercial contract with Roscosmos for years.
https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1485496840913137665
Quote from: Zed_Noir on 01/26/2022 07:52 amSea Launch have no future if Russia moves into Ukraine, IMO. Economic sanctions will be applied that will block anyone from signing a new commercial contract with Roscosmos for years.Now if they did, could they get what they need for Zenit in Ukraine?
Roscosmos and #S7 discuss the transfer of the #SeaLaunch to state ownership, said yesterday Evgeny Yesin, general director of S7 Space Transport Systems. Well, it wasn’t unexpected. The ships need a huge amount of funding only to be preserved, not to mention restored.
After the pandemic which hit the aviation industry so hard, and the sanctions, it was obvious that S7 wouldn’t have money for this project, so they should be very interested in this transfer. The question is, will they receive something from the government in return, or not.