Sea Launch Future

[catdlr]

Anatoly Zak
@RussianSpaceWeb
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Space Transportation Division of the S7 airline, (once advertised as "Russian SpaceX") was liquidated on September 30, according to unofficial reports. The company initially focused on the revival of the Sea Launch venture: https://russianspaceweb.com/sea-launch-2017.html

https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1984261241301504056

[big_gazza]

Next step could be for Roscosmos to assume ownership and reorient the infrastructure to support Soyuz-5.  That would make sense once the launcher starts to operate from (kazakh-owned) Baikonour as it will probably be 5 years or so (?) before the announced pad at Vostochny will be ready for operation.

I suppose the real question is how important is Soyuz-5 to Roskosmos plans?  From what I have seen their long term plan for the next decade+ is based on Soyuz-2 and Angara, but I expect that is hardly set in stone.