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    Sea Launch was a multinational—Norway, Russia, Ukraine, United States—spacecraft launch company founded in 1995 that provided orbital launch services from...
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    Sea Launch Commander is the command ship for Sea Launch. As of 2013[update], she was registered in Liberia. Her home port was at Long Beach, California...
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    the White Sea, on 10 September 1960 from the same converted Project 611 (NATO reporting name Zulu-IV class) submarine that first launched the R-11FM...
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    spacecraft launch platform converted from a mobile drilling rig in 1997. The vessel was used by Sea Launch for equatorial Pacific Ocean launches. She works...
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  • The Sea Dragon was a 1962 conceptualized design study for a two-stage sea-launched orbital super heavy-lift launch vehicle. The project was led by Robert...
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    mobile ocean platform (Sea Launch), and on a submarine. Launch vehicles can also be launched from the air.[citation needed] A launch vehicle will start off...
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    NASA, and commercial ventures. International participation includes Sea Launch and the Galileo positioning system. Space activities in Ukraine have been...
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    weapons. Zenit-3SL was launched by the Sea Launch consortium's floating launch platform in the Pacific Ocean and Zenit-2 was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome...
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    journeys. The term rocket launch site is used for any facility from which rockets are launched. It may contain one or more launch pads or suitable sites...
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    missions depend on these launch vehicles. Several super heavy-lift launch vehicle concepts were produced in the 1960s, including the Sea Dragon. During the...
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    of orbital launch systems. The eleven countries and successor states/union indicated in bold retain orbital launch capability. Sea Launch is currently...
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    launch system". Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. 56 (4): 901–913. doi:10.15632/jtam-pl.56.4.901. ISSN 1429-2955. "From Sea Wolf to Sea Ceptor...
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    identification of different variants. Sea-launched version of the third unofficial iteration of the Ceres-1 launch vehicle. 5,100 kg to a 500-km Sun-synchronous...
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  • a list of launches made by the Zenit rocket. All launches were conducted from either Site 45 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome or from Sea Launch's Ocean Odyssey...
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    abbreviated LM-11 for export or CZ-11 within China (and designated 11H when launched from sea), is a Chinese four stage solid-propellant carrier rocket of the Long...
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  • orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2024, including launches planned for 2024 without a specific launch date. For all other...
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    include Icon of the Seas (launched in 2024), Star of the Seas (planned to launch in 2025), unnamed third and fourth ships (planned to launch in 2026 and 2027)...
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    Pacific Ocean, as a launch pad. In 1999, shortly after the company was founded, the Sea Launch consortium claimed that their launch-related operating costs...
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    fairing diameter of 4.2 meters. Its maiden launch was conducted from a sea launch platform in the Yellow Sea on January 11, 2024, breaking records as both...
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    Land Launch refers to a service product of Sea Launch SA. There is no entity or company called Land Launch. Sea Launch created the Land Launch offering...
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  • another Sea Launch rocket led to a substantial delay in the launch of Thuraya-3, which was rescheduled for 14 November 2007, but the launch was postponed...
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    island, in the Sea of Okhotsk, and off the coast of South Korea. Another important project was Sea Launch, a unique spacecraft launch service that uses...
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    central launch platform (mobile launcher platform), or the entire complex (launch complex). The entire complex will include a launch mount or launch platform...
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  • floating launch vehicle operations platform is a marine vessel used for launch or landing operations of an orbital launch vehicle by a launch service provider:...
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  • Zenit-3SL was an expendable carrier rocket operated by Sea Launch. First flown in 1999, it was launched 36 times, with three failures and one partial failure...
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    Telstar (category Spacecraft launched in 1962)
    Systems/Loral, and it was finally launched on June 23, 2005, by Sea Launch. Telstar 18 was launched in June 2004 by sea launch. The upper stage of the rocket...
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  • in the Yellow Sea. The recent launch was the first launch of Gravity-1 on 13:30, 11 January 2024, which was successful in the Yellow Sea. Space program...
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    first-stage boosters, which land either on a ground pad near the launch site or on a drone ship at sea. In December 2015, Falcon 9 became the first rocket to land...
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  • Space launch market competition is the manifestation of market forces in the launch service provider business. In particular it is the trend of competitive...
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  • subsequently de-orbited in May 2009. DirecTV-1R was launched on October 9, 1999 aboard a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL launch vehicle. It was the first satellite used to...
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