Rosatom estimates recovery of Sea Launch at 84 billion rublesMOSCOW, June 17 - RIA News. The cost of restoring the Sea Launch complex to operability will amount to 84 billion rubles in 2020 prices, which exceeds the cost of its purchase by the S7 group in 2016 by almost eight times, according to Rosatom .Given the projected inflation, the volume of required investments will amount to 91 billion rubles, according to Rosatom experts, compiled from data provided by Roskosmos that RIA Novosti has reviewed. At the same time, in 2016, the S7 group paid 150-160 million US dollars, or about ten to eleven billion rubles, at the current exchange rate for Sea Launch.The materials do not specify for what purpose investments are required. However, it is known that the Sea Launch project has neither a rocket nor equipped for the operation of coastal infrastructure for the assembly and testing of rockets and spacecraft. In addition, all foreign equipment was removed from the Odyssey launch platform and the command ship in the United States : Boeing information and communications equipment and Ukrainian-made launch equipment for the Zenit rocket from Yuzhmash.Earlier media reported that Rosatom was considering the acquisition of the Sea Launch complex, which had recently been relocated from the US to Russia. Currently, the owner of the complex is a group of companies S7.According to RIA Novosti, Rosatom considers it inappropriate to buy Sea Launch due to the absence of such a need, the high competition in the launch services market created by SpaceX by Ilona Mask , and a number of other reasons. At the same time, the press service of the corporation told the agency that the potential risks of the project were being studied and measures were being worked out to prevent them.Sea Launch was created in 1995 for the operation of a sea-based rocket and space complex. In 2016, the S7 Group signed a contract with the Sea Launch group of companies (a subsidiary of RSC Energia), which provides for the purchase of the project's property complex.In March 2020, with the approval of the US State Department, the complex was relocated to Russia. At the end of April, Vyacheslav Filev, chairman of the board of directors of S7 Group, told Kommersant in an interview that the Sea Launch was frozen until better times.Around the same time, it became known that Roscosmos set a task for its enterprises to conduct an economic feasibility study for resuming the project - to estimate the costs of repairing a floating spaceport and creating a new Soyuz-7 rocket . At the same time, launches are planned from 2024.
Rosatom lists the risks associated with the purchase of Sea LaunchRosatom considers it inappropriate to purchase the Sea Launch complex, according to the materials of the state corporation, which RIA Novosti got acquainted with . Among the reasons - high competition in the launch services market, created by SpaceX Ilona Mask.The materials list five risks associated with the purchase of the complex:1) The absence of a significant need for ROSATOM for space launches;2) Lack of competencies in Rosatom for attracting customers to launches;3) The purchase of Sea Launch will lead to competition with another Russian state-owned corporation, Roskosmos;4) Rosatom noted a decrease in the cost of launching launch vehicles in the commercial market in connection with the activities of SpaceX;5) Rosatom noted the need to compensate for accumulated losses and debts under the Sea Launch project.
You might not want to google Ilona Mask...
https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1277617904670867456Any idea what restrictions he is referring to? The 2 ships were already stripped of all the US made components.
Russia will restore the #SeaLaunch cosmodrome, said the Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov today at the Army-2020 forum. According to him, the preliminary calculations showed that the restoration will cost about 35 billion rubles (ca $450 million). ria.ru/20200824/15762…
Yuri Borisov said, an assessment is being made of the possibility of using the Soyuz-5 rocket with Sea Launch complex, or modify the project of a rocket for this complex.
He also believes that after the renovation, the launch complex could bring profit with 5 launches per year.
That is, in my opinion, we are ready to step on the rake again!
https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1302853953542127616
Manual @roscosmos Together with specialists from the industry and S7, we assessed the scope of work to ensure the readiness of the Odyssey floating offshore platform and the command vessel for the launch of the promising Soyuz-5 and Soyuz-6 missiles being developed at the Samara RCC Progress.
A lot of posts about what "will" happen, but not so many about what is actually happening.
Quote from: Danderman on 12/30/2020 09:26 amA lot of posts about what "will" happen, but not so many about what is actually happening.The main reason for delay is that the rocket Sea Launch used to launch is no longer in production. Russia first need to get the new rocket ready before doing anything with these 2 platforms.
Quote from: owais.usmani on 12/31/2020 03:23 amQuote from: Danderman on 12/30/2020 09:26 amA lot of posts about what "will" happen, but not so many about what is actually happening.The main reason for delay is that the rocket Sea Launch used to launch is no longer in production. Russia first need to get the new rocket ready before doing anything with these 2 platforms.Not entirely correct. The most recent ones were ordered by S7 before they were "barred" from accepting delivery of them even though paid for them (not final amount). It is a rocket that is without replacement engines and launch sites. It is per others that work continues at a slow place to train an incoming new young workforce and allow transfer of knowledge. They are retained by having them work on other rocket programmes such as Antares. They are also planning bench tests of Ukrainian replacement engines using Zenit stages. The ones including training versions have been requested to be returned to the factory from its Baikonur MIK.
