Sea Launch Future

[Tomness]

Could UlA & Aerojet assable Zenit in their facilites that assembles Atlas. If the supply chain was economically feasible to restart.

[eeergo]

Formalities for Sea Launch assets transfer have been completed:

This allowed to complete the transaction and make the corresponding entries in the ship's register about the transfer of ownership of the vessels to the buyers, as well as to sign the transfer acts that certify the alienation to the equipment buyers. The final calculation has been made with the sellers.

In accordance with the agreement, RSC Energia will continue to participate in the Sea Launch project as a component supplier and will assist the S7 Group in the operation and maintenance of the complex.

It is also planned that Energia will carry out development work to adapt the Soyuz-5 medium-range missile for launches from the Sea Launch complex.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/24942/

[D_Dom]

Third time in my life I have changed employers with no change to salary, commute or roles and responsibilities .
Looking forward to returning this spaceport to operational status.

http://www.s7space.ru/en/news/src-sea-launch-purchase/

[john smith 19]

Third time in my life I have changed employers with no change to salary, commute or roles and responsibilities .
Looking forward to returning this spaceport to operational status.

http://www.s7space.ru/en/news/src-sea-launch-purchase/

Hmm.

A space launch services company owned by an actual air line. 

Rather like when a "wild cat" oil drilling company formed a nuclear division. The cultural interchanges should be most interesting.

[Jim]

Hmm.

A space launch services company owned by an actual air line. 

Rather like when a "wild cat" oil drilling company formed a nuclear division. The cultural interchanges should be most interesting.

Not really.  The real work is still done by the vehicle contractors.

[Asteroza]

Formalities for Sea Launch assets transfer have been completed:

This allowed to complete the transaction and make the corresponding entries in the ship's register about the transfer of ownership of the vessels to the buyers, as well as to sign the transfer acts that certify the alienation to the equipment buyers. The final calculation has been made with the sellers.

In accordance with the agreement, RSC Energia will continue to participate in the Sea Launch project as a component supplier and will assist the S7 Group in the operation and maintenance of the complex.

It is also planned that Energia will carry out development work to adapt the Soyuz-5 medium-range missile for launches from the Sea Launch complex.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/24942/

Wait, Soyuz-5, will that include Federatsia, thus a manned capability?

[eeergo]

Formalities for Sea Launch assets transfer have been completed:

This allowed to complete the transaction and make the corresponding entries in the ship's register about the transfer of ownership of the vessels to the buyers, as well as to sign the transfer acts that certify the alienation to the equipment buyers. The final calculation has been made with the sellers.

In accordance with the agreement, RSC Energia will continue to participate in the Sea Launch project as a component supplier and will assist the S7 Group in the operation and maintenance of the complex.

It is also planned that Energia will carry out development work to adapt the Soyuz-5 medium-range missile for launches from the Sea Launch complex.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/24942/

Wait, Soyuz-5, will that include Federatsia, thus a manned capability?

I don't think they will want to add the complications of a crew tower on the platform (or to have a crew board horizontally to then be raised to vertical by the strongback, to then proceed to fueling, over several hours). Soyuz-5 will just be a "Russianized" Zenit, so obvious choice (for now) to keep SL in operation in a few years' time.

[zubenelgenubi]

Cross-post with a small morsel of Sea Launch news:

TASS: S7 Space to modernize Sea Launch floating spaceport for reusable rocket http://tass.com/science/1029619

S7 Space is developing its own reusable rocket based on the conceptual design of the Soyuz-5 carrier (being developed by Energia Space Rocket Corporation). The company has dubbed the new rocket "Soyuz-7" and "Soyuz-7SL" (Sea Launch).

This is a brief summary of a rather interesting TASS interview with Sergei Sopov, head of S7 Space. There are many more details in the full interview, available here (only in Russian):
https://tass.ru/interviews/5760322
<snip>
Sopov says they're still on schedule to resume launches of the Zenit-3SL from the Sea Launch platform in December 2019 and are holding talks with a potential foreign customer which he didn't identify.

[Asteroza]

Cross-post with a small morsel of Sea Launch news:

TASS: S7 Space to modernize Sea Launch floating spaceport for reusable rocket http://tass.com/science/1029619

S7 Space is developing its own reusable rocket based on the conceptual design of the Soyuz-5 carrier (being developed by Energia Space Rocket Corporation). The company has dubbed the new rocket "Soyuz-7" and "Soyuz-7SL" (Sea Launch).

This is a brief summary of a rather interesting TASS interview with Sergei Sopov, head of S7 Space. There are many more details in the full interview, available here (only in Russian):
https://tass.ru/interviews/5760322
<snip>
Sopov says they're still on schedule to resume launches of the Zenit-3SL from the Sea Launch platform in December 2019 and are holding talks with a potential foreign customer which he didn't identify.

Soyuz-7 allegedly a Suyuz-5 with reusable first stage now. I wonder if ocean landing, particularly RTLS, is in the cards. Though with Zenit-3SL apparently still a go, they won't be modifying the launch platform anytime soon.

[russianhalo117]

Cross-post with a small morsel of Sea Launch news:

TASS: S7 Space to modernize Sea Launch floating spaceport for reusable rocket http://tass.com/science/1029619

S7 Space is developing its own reusable rocket based on the conceptual design of the Soyuz-5 carrier (being developed by Energia Space Rocket Corporation). The company has dubbed the new rocket "Soyuz-7" and "Soyuz-7SL" (Sea Launch).

This is a brief summary of a rather interesting TASS interview with Sergei Sopov, head of S7 Space. There are many more details in the full interview, available here (only in Russian):
https://tass.ru/interviews/5760322
<snip>
Sopov says they're still on schedule to resume launches of the Zenit-3SL from the Sea Launch platform in December 2019 and are holding talks with a potential foreign customer which he didn't identify.

Soyuz-7 allegedly a Suyuz-5 with reusable first stage now. I wonder if ocean landing, particularly RTLS, is in the cards. Though with Zenit-3SL apparently still a go, they won't be modifying the launch platform anytime soon.

S7 Space may play middle man and assemble the Ukrainian and Russian components in Russia or Baikonur and then ship the rockets where they need to go until a full Russian replacement is ready.

[Olaf]

https://sputniknews.com/science/201910081076987040-sea-launch-rocket-platform-stripped-of-foreign-equipment-ready-to-leave-us-for-russia--reports/
Sea Launch Rocket Platform Stripped of Foreign Equipment, Ready to Leave US for Russia

[owais.usmani]

https://tass.ru/kosmos/7279901

S7 Space will relocate Sea Launch from California to the Russian Far East in 2020. Both ships will be temporary based at Slavyanka port south of Vladivostok for repair works (approximately for 1 year). The permanent base of the ships is unknown yet.

[owais.usmani]

https://twitter.com/anik1982space/status/1202545416727924736

The Sea Launch Commander and the Odyssey launch platform are planned to be relocated in 2020 from the US port of Long Beach (California) to the Russian port of Slavyanka (Primorsky Krai), 80 km north-east of the border with the DPRK

[Chris Bergin]

Full videos in L2. Edited clips above.

Now that Sea Launch - albeit under Russian control - is expected to see the Oddessy Launch Platform make a come back with the Soyuz 7, we've dug up these clips from the depth of NSF L2 and edited together a video. The only videos on youtube show the first 10 seconds and Sea Launch's live webcast at the time cutting to its logo seconds after the failure. Our video shows the uncut version and some clips from the cameras both on Oddessy and Sea Commander, provided exclusively to NSF.

The event: On 30 January 2007, a Zenit-3SL lost thrust almost immediately after liftoff - caused by debris in the turbopump. The payload was NSS-8 communications satellite for SES New Skies.

Sea Launch recovered and launched again, but later went out of business. After being mothballed in Long Beach, the platform will be used by the Russian Soyuz 7 rocket.

https://twitter.com/FEDOR37516789/status/1213554851138953216

[Prober]

Sea Launch Commander launched several min. ago


Looks like it might be going for a Refurbish (gone for 6 months)?


Any news on this?

[D_Dom]

Currently traveling at 10 knots near Catalina island the Sea Launch Commander is performing sea trials. We have been working to prepare the ship and platform for return to Russia, this test is expected to take two days. Normal practice, we have conducted sea trials before departure after any extended downtime. This has been the longest period of inactivity, 5.5 years, since new 23 years ago.

[owais.usmani]

Any further updates on the commander and odyssey?

[D_Dom]

Commander is back from seatrials. Final loading is ongoing. Odyssey is being preppped for the heavy lift ship, scheduled to arrive in a few weeks.

[owais.usmani]

Commander is back from seatrials. Final loading is ongoing. Odyssey is being preppped for the heavy lift ship, scheduled to arrive in a few weeks.

Thanks for the update. So right now Odyssey is unable to sail on its own to Russia? Why is that?

[owais.usmani]

https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1227118806788640768