Source: " Sea launch " have an opportunity to preserve until 2016
Unique floating cosmodrome " Sea launch ", which are carried out commercial launches of launch vehicle Zenit-3SL " with satellites with mobile launch platform of the Equatorial Pacific ocean, are able to preserve for two years, said a source in the space industry. " Cause (possible conservation - approx. OPINION) that the manufacture of launch vehicle " Zenit 3SL " is hosted in the Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk, and the project " the Sea start " now has only four rockets of varying degrees of readiness. Himself a Ukrainian producer - Yuzhmash - would be happy to continue long-term mutually advantageous cooperation, but as long as it is not clear how in the future the developments in Ukraine it will develop ", - explained the source, RIA " Novosti ". According to him, if the us-Russian-Ukrainian relations will not be able to stabilize soon be able to be made a conclusion about temporary preservation of Sea launch, at least until 2016." This means that the launch platform and command ship will continuously be in their home port in long beach, California. The number of teams providing preparation for launch planned to minimize several times, other Experts have the opportunity to be in standby mode. It is not This means that the launch facility will not become capable of entering into the ocean, just to prepare, if necessary, will take a longer time, " he concluded. We emphasize that in the beginning of summer the head of the Russian rocket-space Corporation " Energy " Vasily Lopota said about the intention to transfer commercial launches project " Sea launch " from California in the Crimea." Sea launch - 1st in the history of commercial international project rocket and space complex ocean placement. The main goal is rendering services on firing spacecrafts from the floating launch platform. The vast number of satellites in the geostationary orbit of the Equatorial area of the Pacific ocean. International cartel " Sea launch " was established in 1995. After the change in the structure in 2010, the headquarters of the organization of Sea Launch AG is located in Bern (Switzerland). The Carrier rocket " Zenit-3SL " consists of two-stage launch vehicle Zenit-2S " and block DM-SL production RKK " Energy ". The media can provide low earth orbit from eleven to fifteen tons of payload, on transition to the geostationary orbit six tons into geostationary orbit - four tons.