Russian media speculation: Sea Launch home port to be moved to Vietnam?

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According to "a source in the Russian space industry" quoted by Interfax, Sea Launch could move its home port from Long Beach to Cam Ranh, a former Russian naval base in Vietnam.
(source in Russian)

Original text from Interfax (in Russian)
http://www.interfax.ru/politics/news.asp?id=274745

[russianhalo117]

According to "a source in the Russian space industry" quoted by Interfax, Sea Launch could move its home port from Long Beach to Cam Ranh, a former Russian naval base in Vietnam.
(source in Russian)

Original text from Interfax (in Russian)
http://www.interfax.ru/politics/news.asp?id=274745

According to mid-level Sea Launch employee, that statement is a fallacy and Sea Launch does not plan on moving operations at this time.

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Another potential relocation site for Sea Launch home port: Naro space center in South Korea! (quoted by the source in the Russian space industry)
(source in Russian)

No timeframe is mentionned and any move, if it ever takes place,  could realistically take many years...

[Jim]

no, as long as Boeing is providing any hardware and support, Sealaunch will not move outside of the US.

[Valerij]

Sea Launch home port is in US because in US there are all its customers. A plan to have Sea Launch home port in US first of all what to avoid export restrictions.

It is news for political PR in Russia only. Sea Launch home port can be transferred from US only to hide its bankruptcy.

[edkyle99]

no, as long as Boeing is providing any hardware and support, Sealaunch will not move outside of the US.

It also probably has something to do with where many of the satellites are manufactured.  One of the original reasons for Long Beach basing was Hughes (now BSS in El Segundo) and other California-based satellite manufacturers (but especially Hughes - remember that the Hughes-Boeing relationship dated back to the Jarvis studies). 

Boeing Satellite Systems bills itself as "the world's leading manufacturer of geostationary satellites".  Now, if BSS moved to Vietnam, then I could see Sea Launch following. 

 - Ed Kyle

[Prober]

It is news for political PR in Russia only. Sea Launch home port can be transferred from US only to hide its bankruptcy.

you have this right

Sea Launch assets "could" be moved prior to another bankruptcy filing.

2) Vietnam is the New China for low cost labor.

[Jim]

you have this right

Sea Launch assets "could" be moved prior to another bankruptcy filing.

2) Vietnam is the New China for low cost labor.

No, it can't.  Boeing provides important assets for Sealaunch.
labor has nothing to do with it.  The Russians handle the launch vehicle.

[baldusi]

How are they going to encapsulate ITAR restricted payloads? Who's going to supply the new fairings?

[Valerij]

It is news for political PR in Russia only. Sea Launch home port can be transferred from US only to hide its bankruptcy.

you have this right

Sea Launch assets "could" be moved prior to another bankruptcy filing.

2) Vietnam is the New China for low cost labor.

I ask to excuse me, if because of my bad knowledge of language there was an error. I do not know anything new about financial condition Sea Launch.

It would be no point what to move Sea Launch home port from US. It only political news, anything real behind it is not present and to discuss they be to waste time.

Sorry.

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Let's lock this thread then..