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	Sea Launch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sea Launch has a reciprocal agreement with Arianespace, providing assurance in case either company's system is not able to launch a payload, whether for reasons of reliability, capacity, backlog, or otherwise.
		Sea Launch consortium claims that their launch-related operating costs are lower than a land-based equivalent would be, due in part to reduced staff requirements.
		Sea Launch rocket components are manufactured by SDO Yuzhnoe/PO Yuzhmash in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (Zenit rocket for the first and second stages); by Energia in Moscow, Russia (Block DM-SL for third stage); and by Boeing Seattle, USA (payload fairing and interstage structure).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sea_Launch (1044 words)

	The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Sea Launch could use a lift
		Sea Launch is trying to maintain its niche in commercial launches, which have fallen by about 50 percent since the late 1990s because of a downturn in telecommunications.
		Sea Launch also extols the reliability of its Zenit-3SL rocket, a claim that is generally true.
		Sea Launch is a fairly lean operation; roughly 300 workers travel aboard the command-and-control ship and on Odyssey.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2002324328_sealaunch10.html (917 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Sea Launch Mission Report \| Mission Status Center
		Sea Launch continues to keep its Zenit rocket grounded due to the technical trouble uncovered during the final minutes of Tuesday night's countdown.
		Tuesday night's blastoff of the Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket carrying the XM 3 radio broadcasting satellite was aborted with seven minutes remaining in the countdown because of trouble with the booster.
		Sea Launch reports that final preparations are underway for tonight's flight of the Zenit 3SL rocket carrying the XM 3 radio broadcasting satellite.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /sealaunch/xm3/status.html (2188 words)

	Space Technology - Sea Launch System
		Vehicle and spacecraft segments are mated with the launch vehicle in a horizontal orientation.
		Launch command and control is located on the ACS with special units of operations for English-speaking and Russian-speaking launch teams.
		Sea Launch rocket components are manufactured in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (first and second stages); Moscow, Russia (third or "upper" stage); and Seattle, USA (payload fairing and interstage structure).
	www.space-technology.com /projects/sealaunch (636 words)

	Sea Launch
		The technological equipment of launch complex is placed on half-submerged sea platform with the dimensions - 78x66 m, height 48,5 m and displacement - 40 thousand ton.
		The complex provides storage of the LV on TIU in the hangar during the LP moving to the launch area, delivery and installation of the LV on the launch pad, fueling, prelaunch preparation and launch.
		The management of works on LP from fueling till launch operations is carried out by a complex of the automated control systems on the radio channel with ACS without presence of the personnel on the launch platform.
	www.kbtm.ru /english/complexes/sealaunch.htm (334 words)

	Space Today Online: Boeing Sea Launch Rocket
		Sea Launch is capable of carrying Hughes' largest satellites, the HS-601 and HS-702 models, to low, medium or geostationary Earth orbits.
		Sea Launch Co., LDC, is a multinational commercial satellite launching venture formed in 1995 by Boeing Commercial Space Co. of the United States with partners Kvaerner a.s.
		Sea Launch combines the strengths of the four partner companies in aerospace, rocket science, shipbuilding and space operations.
	www.spacetoday.org /Rockets/BoeingSeaLaunch.html (1456 words)

	Barents Sea
		The launch was made from a firing range in the Barents Sea off the coast of the Kolskiy Peninsula, at 35.3 deg E 69.3 deg N. The payloads were the Tubsat-N and Tubsat-N1 `nanosatellites'.
		The Russian Navy launched a three-stage R-29R Volna from the submarine Borisoglebsk in the Barents Sea on a suborbital flight.
		The spacecraft was launched on a suborbital trajectory from the Barents Sea and landed in Kamchatka.
	www.astronautix.com /sites/bartssea.htm (1213 words)

	SPACE.com -- Sea Launch to Launch on July 28
		Sea Launchs last mission ended in failure when faulty software allowed the rocket to launch with an open pneumatic system valve in its second stage.
		Sea Launch officials stressed on Thursday the one-time nature of the deadly glitch.
		Sea Launch hopes to turn profitable in as little as three years time by ramping up to between six and eight launches annually, Trafton said.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/sea_launch_000714.html (770 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Pacific rocket launch fails
		Sea Launch, the company which launched the rocket from a platform in the Pacific Ocean, says it lost communications with the craft a few minutes after take-off at 1439 GMT.
		The Sea Launch platform is being operated jointly by the United States, Russia, Norway and Ukraine.
		The Sea Launch platform, Odyssey, arrived at its launch location (0degN, 154degW) on 9 March, accompanied by the assembly and command vessel Sea Launch Commander.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_675000/675118.stm (433 words)

	UP-Sea Launch
		Sea Launch was formed in 1995 in response to growing market demand for a more affordable, reliable, capable and convenient commercial satellite launching service.
		The 430-foot-long floating Launch Platform is being fabricated in Norway from a former oil-drilling platform used in the North Sea.
		This will let Sea Launch take full advantage of the principles of physics since launching from close to the equator is the most direct route for equatorial launches.
	www.theaustin.com /html/up-sea_launch.html (656 words)

	Space launch complex Sea Launch
		Space launch complex Sea Launch is intended to launch spacecraft by means of Zenit-3SL launch vehicles into a variety of orbits, including GEO, from any point on the World ocean including near-equator zone, which enables to use the energy of Earth rotation to the maximum possible extent.
		Launch Platform, which is an analog of Zenit ground launch complex, adapted for sea conditions, developed on the basis of a self-propelled half-submerged platform for the oil extraction industry;
		Technological equipment of the launch complex is located on the Launch Platform with upper deck measuring 75x133m, 42m high and with displacement of 40,000 tons.
	www.kbtm.ru /english/projects/sealaunch.htm (298 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Sea Launch Mission Report \| Mission Status Center
		Liftoff of the Sea Launch Zenit rocket is scheduled for 0331 GMT (10:31 p.m.
		Sea Launch vessels have returned to the central Pacific Ocean for the consortium's tenth mission -- the deployment of a "combo" communications satellite that will be shared by two different companies.
		The international launch team consisting of Russian, Ukrainian, Norwegian, and American hardware and crew is fresh off the successful launch of the Thuraya 2 communications satellite on June 10.
	spaceflightnow.com /sealaunch/echostar9/status.html (2038 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Crashed rocket is bitter blow
		The Sea Launch system uses a converted oil rig to launch satellites on the equator.
		It is also a setback for the Ukraine, which had been hoping the Sea Launch project would provide a financial boost for its rocket-making space industries.
		Sea Launch is a multinational project involving Boeing, Norway's Kvaerner Group, Russia's Energiya spacecraft builder and Ukraine's Yuzhnoye rocket company.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_675000/675359.stm (583 words)

	Boeing may turn profit soon on Sea Launch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If Sea Launch meets a goal of four launches this year, "it could go into the fl," said Paul Nisbet, an analyst at JSA Research Inc. Will Trafton, the venture's president, said only that Sea Launch will be "easily" profitable with at least six launches a year, a level he hopes to reach next year.
		Sea Launch officials say they've taken steps to prevent a repeat of the failure last March, when an ICO Global Communications Ltd. satellite fell back to sea.
		Sea Launch was formed in 1995, before Boeing gained other rocket programs in its purchase of McDonnell Douglas Corp. The launch market has been unexpectedly stagnant since the collapse of satellite networks such as Iridium LLC.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/sealaunch20.shtml (805 words)

	Popular Mechanics - Sea Launch
		Sea Launch operates with a fraction of their number.
		If its 15 percent stake in Sea Launch isn't enough to make Karl Marx revolve in his grave, the 25 percent owned by Moscow's RSC Energia, which provides the Block DM-SL third stage, certainly must be.
		Originally, Sea Launch's maiden flight was to put a Hughes HS 702 communications satellite on a geostationary transfer orbit.
	www.popularmechanics.com /science/space/1282541.html (1216 words)

	Universe Today - Sea Launch Investigation Begins
		The Sea Launch team is gathering and reviewing Telstar 18 mission data to understand the sequence of events that led to a premature shutdown of the Sea Launch Zenit-3SL upper stage during that mission earlier this week.
		Based on preliminary flight data, all Sea Launch system flight parameters were nominal except that the upper stage of the launch vehicle shut down about 54 seconds prematurely, following the second of two planned burns of the upper stage.
		Sea Launch will also form an independent review board to evaluate all findings and confirm that any corrective actions associated with the upper stage performance on the Telstar 18 mission are complete, satisfactory and verified.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/sea_launch_investigation_begins.html (588 words)

	CNN - Commercial satellite's launch from sea is a first - October 10, 1999
		Sponsored by companies in the United States, Russia, Ukraine and Norway, the venture was the first commercial liftoff for the Sea Launch Co., an international consortium that plans at least another 18 launches through 2003.
		Consortium officials said they thought sea-based equatorial launches are more cost-effective than land-based launches, offer better launch and post-launch technical support, and can put heavier payloads into geostationary orbits because the Earth spins faster at the equator.
		The Odyssey Launch Platform, a modified floating oil rig, and its sister ship, the Sea Launch Commander -- brimming with the latest in space communications -- set sail from Long Beach, California, on September 26.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/space/9910/10/sea.launch (542 words)

	Sea Launch
		The international Sea Launch venture experienced the agony of defeat on Sunday when its Zenit rocket veered off course and crashed into the Pacific Ocean, destroying the first ICO mobile communications satellite.
		Prior to the commencement of the launch countdown, Sea Launch engineers confirmed the mission flight parameters were correctly loaded in the onboard computers, and that the rocket was indeed ready for lift-off.
		Upon liftoff, the Sea Launch rocket, which consists of Ukrainian and Russian components, rose from the Odyssey, arched downrange to the east, and disappeared from view on its 60-minute climb to geostationary transfer orbit.
	www.xs4all.nl /~carlkop/sealaun.html (2967 words)

	Sea Launch Company, LLC :: Sea Launch Wins Multiple Launch Award With PanAmSat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sea Launch and PanAmSat have also signed an agreement providing for the first mission with a new Land Launch offering plus options for additional Land Launch missions.
		Sea Launch's direct insertion into equatorial orbit is expected to yield additional years of life for each of the spacecraft.
		Sea Launch Company, LLC, headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., and marketed through Boeing Launch Services (http://www.boeing.com/launch), is the world's most reliable heavy-lift commercial launch service.
	sev.prnewswire.com /aerospace-defense/20050728/LATH06528072005-1.html (617 words)

	Sea Launch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A prototype for Sea Launch was the German V-2 rocket launched from an aircraft carrier.
		The concept of using platforms at sea was revisited and the idea of Sea Launch was born.
		While Sea Launch is touted as a facility for commercial launches, the same rockets are used for military satellites.
	www.isburg.net /essays/SEA_Launch.html (1235 words)

	Boeing: Sea Launch will Launch DIRECTV-7S for Arianespace
		This will be Sea Launch's second mission for DIRECTV, having successfully completed its very first commercial mission in 1999 with the DIRECTV 1-R broadcast satellite.
		The creation of the launch service alliance in July 2003, allowed Arianespace to negotiate a seamless transfer of the satellite to Sea Launch, and for DIRECTV to secure a guaranteed launch slot for this important mission.
		Sea Launch Company, LLC, headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., and sold through (Boeing Launch Services), provides reliable, cost-effective, heavy lift launch services for commercial satellite customers.
	www.boeing.com /news/releases/2003/q4/nr_031104t.html (450 words)

	Digital audio satellite set for launch from ocean platform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		PST Monday will be the sixth for Sea Launch Co. and the third since the system's sole failure, the liftoff of a communications satellite that did not reach orbit March 12 due to a logic error in software for a ground system.
		Launches are conducted at the equator to take advantage of the physics of Earth's rotation that allow a rocket to loft a heavier payload than it would elsewhere.
		Boeing's Sea Launch partners are RSC-Energia of Russia, Anglo-Norwegian Kvaerner Group of Norway and SDO Yuzhnoye/PO Yuzhmash of Ukraine.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/01/05/state1605EST0177.DTL (334 words)

	Sea Launch \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sea Launch successfully put a 5-ton television satellite into orbit yesterday from a 400-foot long mobile platform in the central Pacific Ocean.
		It was the 12th successful launch for the firm (run by a consortium that includes Boeing and Energia), with the equatorial position in the mid-Pacific allowing the rocket to carry a heavier payload to orbit with less fuel.
		I was interested to note when I first got satellite tv a couple years back that the progress of various launches is followed fairly closely on some of the satellite tv forums.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/32916 (793 words)

	Sea Launch
		Sea Launch accomplished its eighth successful launch yesterday with the perfect flight of the Zenit-3SL rocket and the on-target delivery of the Thuraya-2 satellite to orbit.
		All systems are progressing as planned for the Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander, now positioned at the launch site on the Equator, where a countdown is underway for a June 10 launch.
		Sea Launch sails to Equator for the launch of Thuraya-2
	www.ameinfo.com /news/Company_News/S/Sea_Launch (321 words)

	Universe Today - DIRECTV Satellite Lofted From Sea Launch
		Sea Launch Company today successfully delivered DIRECTV’s Spaceway F1 satellite to orbit, completing the launch of the heaviest commercial satellite to date.
		The Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket lifted off at 12:31:30 am PDT (07:31:30 GMT), precisely on schedule, from the Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned at 154 degrees West Longitude.
		Sea Launch Company, LLC, headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., and marketed through Boeing Launch Services (www.boeing.com/launch), is the world’s most reliable heavy-lift commercial launch service.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/spaceway_f1_launched.html (495 words)

	CalTrade Report - SEA LAUNCH TO ORBIT DIRECTV SATELLITE
		According to Agence France Presse, the award to Sea launch was made because of a European Space Agency (ESA) scheduling conflict with the launch of its Rosetta comet-chasing robot probe scientific mission next February.
		Sea Launch - which uses US, Russian and Ukrainian space technology to provide equatorial launches from a specially adapted ship - is a consortium owned by Boeing; RSC-Energia of Russia; Kvaerner of Norway; and SDO Yuzhnoyo/PO Yuzhmash of Ukraine.
		The DIRECTV launch will be the second carried out for the company by Sea Launch, which successfully completed its very first commercial satellite mission in 1999 with the orbiting orbit of the DIRECTV 1-R broadcast satellite.
	www.caltradereport.com /eWebPages/page-two-1068287607.html (578 words)

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