The Russian Soyuz-5 is being adapted for launch from a floating platform
Roscosmos announced its readiness to support the “resurrection” of the Sea Launch project. According to information received by TASS from reliable sources in the Russian space industry, the state corporation supports the idea of adapting the Soyuz-5 rocket to launch from the Odyssey floating platform.
It is worth noting that launches using the aforementioned platform stopped in 2014, and five years earlier, Sea Launch declared itself bankrupt. In 2016, her property was acquired by the organization S7 Group.
Now it has become known that a certain company S7 Space, which is a structural unit of the S7 Group, plans to “re-open” the Sea Launch program, in connection with which a permanent headquarters has already been established in the port of Long Beach (California, USA). According to currently available information, the "new owners" intend to create their own reusable apparatus based on the project of the Russian Soyuz-5 launch vehicle.
The domestic spacecraft is a middle-class rocket with two successively arranged steps. According to the plans of the developer, the modernized Soyuz-5 can make its first flight as part of the Sea Launch project in December this year.
It is worth noting that launches using the aforementioned platform stopped in 2014, and five years earlier, Sea Launch declared itself bankrupt. In 2016, her property was acquired by the organization S7 Group.
Now it has become known that a certain company S7 Space, which is a structural unit of the S7 Group, plans to “re-open” the Sea Launch program, in connection with which a permanent headquarters has already been established in the port of Long Beach (California, USA). According to currently available information, the "new owners" intend to create their own reusable apparatus based on the project of the Russian Soyuz-5 launch vehicle.
The domestic spacecraft is a middle-class rocket with two successively arranged steps. According to the plans of the developer, the modernized Soyuz-5 can make its first flight as part of the Sea Launch project in December this year.
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