The relocation of the "Sea launch" from the USA to Russia will begin on February 22
The relocation of the floating cosmodrome "Sea launch" from the port of long beach in the USA in the Slavic ship-repair enterprise in Primorye will start on February 22, said Last news a source in the rocket and space industry.
The relocation of the floating cosmodrome "Sea launch" from the port of long beach in the USA in the Slavic ship-repair enterprise in Primorye will start on February 22, said Last news a source in the rocket and space industry.
in a press-service of S7 group, which owns the complex, did not want to comment.
first General Director of the Slavic ship-repair enterprises Andriy Yakymchuk said Last news that he expects the arrival of the "Sea launch" in early March.
in the early winter of 2019 S7 group said that the US state Department gave permission for the Relocation of the "Sea launch" to the Russian Federation. The new home port floating platform will become the village of Slavyanka South of Vladivostok.
The relocation of the platform and Assembly-command ship was scheduled for 2020. It was stated that it will not go on their own, and will be towed.
According to the General Director of the Slavic ship-repair enterprises, concluded with S7 agreement for a period of one year includes repair platform and its Parking lot until, as long as the Firm can not find a base port or build it.
The question of the relocation project in the far East has already been discussed in 2013 and 2015. Then in the locations of the launch platform and command ship, called the Vladivostok, Sovetskaya Gavan, the Crimea and Vietnam. In the end, in 2016, the project was sold to the group S7, which was intended to restore the starter operation and ordered the Ukrainian rocket " Zenit ".
in April 2018, S7 became the master of the floating spaceport. During the contract she inherited the whole property complex of the project: ship Sea Launch Commander and the Odyssey platform with the rocket segment equipment, ground the equipment at the port of long beach and intellectual property rights owned by the organization Sea Launch, including trademark. The total amount of the contract, as well as among them the conclusion of preservation, is about 150 million dollars. However, the starting operation, the company never continued.
Last, the 36th in a row start was made with the "Sea launch" in 2014. Then floating cosmodrome mothballed due to the deterioration of Russian-Ukrainian relations.
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