International floating spaceport Sea launch in the foreseeable future can be implemented in the United Arab Emirates. This site was previously made the runs Ukrainian rocket "Zenit", which are performed in Dnepropetrovsk. Today the plan is closed.
As TASS informs citing an anonymous source in the space industry power, UAE interested in acquiring Russia's floating spaceport. "The UAE has adopted its own national interest in this project. The Russian side with them had several meetings, but today the intensity of contacts decreased", says the interlocutor of the Agency, which among other things noted that declining interest Emirates to the project may be associated with a fall in tariffs on oil.
2 years ago in the UAE have any private space Agency and power with the acquisition of the project would receive technology professionals and existing infrastructure. In 2021 Emirates intend to send a spacecraft to Mars.
Remember that the international consortium Sea launch was created in 1995. It is currently 95% of shares are owned subsidiaries (Energia Overseas Limited) Missile and space company Energia. On the floating spaceport, located near the equator, it was supposed to do paid launches into geostationary orbit with the help of the media "Zenit 3SL". But due to the fact that the creation of such missiles located in Dnepropetrovsk, the project was postponed. Previously it was believed that "Zenith" will replace the Russian media, in particular, missile family of the Hangar.
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