“Sawed into metal”: Sea Launch Cosmodrome predicted a sad end

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Last month, the Sea Launch floating spaceport was transferred to the Far East from California. It is assumed that after the modernization of the complex, it will be used to launch Soyuz-5 missiles. In turn, representatives of the company S7 Group, which owns the launch platform, said they plan to operate it in the next 10-15 years.

However, as it turned out, not everyone believes in such an optimistic scenario. So, the head of the Space Institute policy Ivan Moiseev in an interview with the agency RIA News stated that Sea Launch is likely to be sawn into scrap due to its uselessness.



According to the expert, the floating spaceport has no prospects. The S7 Group does not have its own missile for launching via this platform, and it is not economically feasible to use Sea Launch for testing the Soyuz-5. In order to break even, this cosmodrome will need to launch at least 4 rockets per year.

I do not see any perspective. There are no consumers now. The only option is to send it to scrap. No rocket, no orders. What to expect?

- summed up Moses.

Recall that the development of the Sea Launch spaceport began in the 90s of the last century. The first launch from a floating complex took place in 1999. As a carrier, the Ukrainian Zenit-3SL LV was used. In 2009, the project declared bankruptcy, and in 2018 Sea Launch completely became the property of the Russian holding S7 Group.
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  1. +2
    April 1 2020 13: 09
    I think the owners know better.

    representatives of the company S7 Group, which owns the launch platform, said they plan to operate it in the next 10-15 years.

    And what does one Moses have to do with it? What is the habit of the beginning of the 90s to cut and break everything? Is it really possible to launch something rocky and supernatural with Sea Launch 4 rockets a year?

    for testing the Soyuz-5 Sea Launch it is not economically feasible to use. In order to break even, this cosmodrome will need to launch at least 4 rockets per year.
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    +4
    April 1 2020 13: 18
    Again Moiseev? I already once wrote what kind of swindler he is, I don’t want to repeat myself, in short, his "Institute for Space Policy" is the office of "Horns and Hooves". He knows space like a pig in oranges.
    1. +2
      April 1 2020 14: 50
      I admit that a pig understands oranges more.
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        +2
        April 1 2020 15: 28
        Lieutenant, you're right Yes I slander in vain on an innocent animal.
  3. -6
    April 1 2020 13: 35
    When the cat has nothing to do, he ... licks. When there is nowhere to put money, they buy floating spaceports.
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  4. +1
    April 1 2020 13: 35
    This is a complete reprint from the liberal "free press" by Svetlana Gomzikova. The liberda is doing very badly. Diarrhea is getting thinner, diarrhea is becoming more frequent.
  5. 0
    April 1 2020 14: 03
    “Sawed into metal”

    - Yes, of course, they will saw it ... - The Vostochny cosmodrome ... was "sawed", and this one will be cut even more ...
  6. -2
    April 1 2020 14: 20
    And if you recall that a year ago the co-owner of the S7 Group, which was in charge of the space program, suddenly crashed, then ..... everything is ambiguous.
  7. +1
    April 1 2020 14: 48
    The head of the Space Policy Institute, Ivan Moiseev, in an interview with RIA Novosti, said

    If Moiseev himself from the Institute of Space Policy so prophesies, then the owner simply does not have anything else.
  8. 0
    April 1 2020 15: 19
    According to a specialist

    According to whom? And what do grandmothers say at the entrance?
  9. -1
    April 1 2020 16: 18
    We apparently survive that allows you to steal ...
  10. 0
    April 2 2020 10: 24
    Sea Launch is likely to be sawn into scrap

    Why so? You can start a couple of firefighters, and then sink. There is experience. feel For scrap it had to be left somewhere in Bangladesh and left. Yes
    And suddenly there is a specific plan and even enough funds to carry out repairs. Then it will be possible to use as intended. I wonder how the foreign specialists who are involved there will be paid?