The ship of the floating launch site "Sea Launch" came from the United States to Russia

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The ship Sea Launch Commander crossed the Pacific Ocean and is now located in the port of Slavyanka, Primorsky Territory. The village of Slavyanka is located south of Vladivostok, 80 kilometers from the North Korean border.

The specialized site marinetraffic.com, which monitors the movement of ships, claims that the ship arrived at the port at 8.33 local time, or at 1.33 Moscow time. The representative of the Slavic shipyard also confirmed RIA Newsthat the ship is moored.



Sea Launch Commander is an assembly and command ship included in the Sea Launch complex of the floating launch site. On February 28, it left the US port of Long Beach on the Pacific coast.

The ship has already arrived in Russia, now it’s the turn of the Odyssey launch platform, which will be delivered to Hong Kong-owned Xin Guang Hua ship to Slavyanka. It departed from the port of Long Beach on March 2, and its arrival in Russia is expected on March 30.

Andrei Yakimchuk, general director of the Slavic Shipyard, told RIA Novosti that, under an agreement with the S7 group of companies, concluded for one year, the Sea Launch complex will remain in Slavyanka until its owner decides on a new base port or builds it.
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    1. -14
      17 March 2020 09: 58
      Another - "suitcase without a handle"? ....
      1. +11
        17 March 2020 10: 03
        he S7 belongs. and these are their problems. apparently the first private trader will appear in the space industry.
        1. +3
          17 March 2020 10: 39
          If there is still competition in the field of astronautics, which is unlikely, but theoretically quite possible, this will only be a plus for our country.
          1. 0
            17 March 2020 10: 44
            What kind of missiles will they put? they seem to have stopped releasing them since 2014.
            1. +1
              17 March 2020 10: 56
              That's the head to think) The question is interesting. If they can solve this issue, then probably the platform can help go into Asian latitudes, so as not to take orders from the Vostochny cosmodrome, in which billions have been invested. This is just one of the scenarios.
              1. -1
                17 March 2020 12: 02
                I agree, if we can still supply our Soyuz-7SL, then we will definitely be in the black.
            2. +1
              17 March 2020 12: 14
              Quote: loki565
              What kind of missiles will they put? they seem to have stopped releasing them since 2014.

              It seems that they are deciding on the joint release of the Soyuz-5 carrier rocket, which, well, purely "by chance" is very similar to
              previously used "Zenith"
              1. +1
                17 March 2020 18: 23
                Quote: svp67
                purely "accidentally" very similar

                All missiles, purely "accidentally", are somehow similar. Just like cars are like cars, and ships are like ships.
                1. 0
                  17 March 2020 19: 20
                  Quote: orionvitt
                  All missiles, purely "accidentally", are somehow similar.

                  Do not tell me when I understand that the launch pad fits two different missiles ... it’s not just like that
                  1. 0
                    17 March 2020 19: 31
                    You are already finding fault with it. laughing I did not talk about those maintenance and operation, but only about the appearance. . Men and women, too, seem to be similar, but there are, as they say, nuances. And about the launch pad, not a problem, redo. A big problem with management and control systems will have to be re-equipped. I think so.
                    1. 0
                      17 March 2020 20: 37
                      Quote: orionvitt
                      . A big problem with management and control systems will have to be re-equipped.

                      Yes, the Ukrainians removed some of the equipment .. but this is solved
          2. -7
            17 March 2020 10: 48
            Here is an article why, "a suitcase without a handle" .... https://www.dv.kp.ru/daily/27039/4103957/
          3. -2
            17 March 2020 11: 34
            It is better to replace Rogozin with Filev. Vladislav Feliksovich is both a competent engineer and a successful entrepreneur. And what is important is a strategist.
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      3. +8
        17 March 2020 10: 46
        It is better not to do anything, but to write messages on the forums.))) From the barking on the forums there is progress, from missile launches never.
    2. -1
      17 March 2020 09: 58
      Interesting, entertaining ...
      But "Sea Launch" is almost like a BZHRK - freedom for the launch site.
      1. 0
        18 March 2020 13: 17
        not .. too slow, noticeable and vulnerable. and in general for this submarine is)
    3. -1
      17 March 2020 10: 09
      The ship of the floating launch site "Sea Launch" came from the United States to Russia

      Okay, come ... well, I guess. And then WHAT?
      1. -8
        17 March 2020 10: 36
        Quote: rocket757
        The ship of the floating launch site "Sea Launch" came from the United States to Russia

        Okay, come ... well, I guess. And then WHAT?

        She came under protection from arrest for nothing.
        And then you can cut it, sell the metal, and build a pipe-laying machine on hand laughing
        1. -11
          17 March 2020 10: 48
          No, no, send the money "to the treasury." And on the way they "get lost". Tea is not the first time.
      2. 0
        17 March 2020 10: 46
        Then there is a small repair, plus payment for parking, before they find a new port.
      3. +5
        17 March 2020 10: 49
        what do you want? it is a private business, they want to do something and do not have to report to you
        1. -1
          17 March 2020 11: 08
          Interval of opinions ... expected !!!
          It is interesting, of course, who and what will be done there .... it is probably worth the wait, and then criticize or rejoice. One thing is clear / it’s not clear who will make rockets for him and is there at least some movement in this direction?
          By the way, if a private trader, then nothing will be said / should be, it is nonsense, now it DOES NOT HAPPEN! Advertising is first and foremost ... it's normal, it's normal. Arranging open secrets is already stupid.
        2. 0
          17 March 2020 18: 29
          Quote: Not Liberoid Russian
          what do you want? it is a private business,

          Philistine interest. Look for the Mask, so many copies break, almost to a fight and mutual insults. And it seems to be the same, private business.
      4. Ren
        -1
        17 March 2020 12: 33
        Quote: rocket757
        Okay, come ... well, I guess. And then WHAT?

        The ship Sea Launch Commander crossed the Pacific Ocean and is now located in the port of Slavyanka, Primorsky Territory. The village of Slavyanka is located south of Vladivostok, 80 kilometers from North Korean borders.

        We read the article carefully about 80 km. wassat
    4. +2
      17 March 2020 10: 19
      Russia refused to supply nodes for Zenith to Ukraine; it intends to use the modified Soyuz-5 for a sea launch.
      But only when, it is unknown.
      Maybe the Yankees will come up with something.
      1. +1
        17 March 2020 10: 54
        and what about the Yankees?
        1. +1
          17 March 2020 10: 57
          Maybe they will offer launch vehicles for their launches.
          1. +1
            17 March 2020 18: 31
            Let them launch with their own launch vehicles.
      2. -5
        17 March 2020 10: 55
        Well, according to the plans it was to start testing in the year 24, but I don’t believe much in it. Rather, I am 100% sure that there will be no beginning in the year 24.
      3. +3
        17 March 2020 11: 32
        Soyuz-7 - for land launches and Soyuz-7SL - for sea launch, both based on Soyuz-5.
    5. +2
      17 March 2020 10: 29
      Very good news. These are technologies and new opportunities for providing space launches.
      1. -1
        17 March 2020 10: 50
        Is Vostochny already fully loaded? Are all the old possibilities exhausted? And the technology in '95 is much newer?
      2. -1
        17 March 2020 11: 16
        Well, the Chinese have put together a cheap barge and let it go. From there, they plan to launch a new 1,5t Kuaizhou 11.


        Technology is not directly new / unique.

        The problem with the launch vehicle is that it doesn’t need to be done. Also, a floating spaceport to redo it. Well, and most importantly, the main competitive advantage of Sea Launch was left - the ability to launch non-travel American satellites. That is, the load does not travel outside the United States. This greatly simplifies and speeds up business, and often even makes launching possible.

        Now this is actually another cosmodrome in Russia. What are its advantages from Baikonur or East?
        1. +6
          17 March 2020 11: 25
          Quote: donavi49
          The main competitive advantage of Sea Launch

          This is an opportunity to launch from low near equator latitudes, which gives a lot of advantages in terms of the weight of the payload and optimization of output to the desired orbits
          1. 0
            17 March 2020 11: 35
            But why, if exploitation in fact eats up all the gains.

            Even then, it was believed that 5-6 launches per year should be done. This indicator was reached once in history, in 2008. Today, without the American launch market and in the face of lower media prices, the chances are even more illusive.
        2. -1
          17 March 2020 16: 13
          Quote: donavi49
          What are its advantages from Baikonur or East?


          Soyuz-5.1 can be launched by sea launch from the platform.
          Cheap launches from the equator region (the cost of one launch is estimated at 55–56 million dollars) - light-weight launch vehicles of almost 17 tons at the IEO.
          The Zenit LV was taken as a basis (in Russia, according to various sources, from 70 to 85% of the components of this LV are manufactured.
          Launch complex based on the Vietnam port. Plus shuttle flights with delivery of RP Soyuz 5 to the location of the complex.
          1. -2
            17 March 2020 16: 51
            Well, I repeat, there’s not even a question in the launch vehicle that costs money and will not be cheap in a small series. There is a question in the basic economy. Before, when MS was in the USA - target point 5-6 launches annually. Only since they could to reach в 2008 year.

            I have no doubt that for the sake of PR they’ll gash the rocket to the MS, and they will let them go from the equator, once or twice a year. However, this is not close to a profitable or useful enterprise.
    6. -3
      17 March 2020 10: 32
      The pipe layer would ....)
    7. +1
      17 March 2020 10: 37
      But what about the launch vehicle for the complex?
      Zenith dropped, as I understand it?
      Is there another?
      1. +3
        17 March 2020 10: 48
        There is. They want to modify Soyuz-5 for this business.
        1. 0
          17 March 2020 10: 53
          eat and want, as if not quite the same thing.
          Moreover, as I understand it, Soyuz-5 itself is not there either.
          It is a pity if without a unique project, the project will bend .....
          1. +3
            17 March 2020 10: 55
            Do not bend. This project is worth the money; the S7 Group knows how to count money.
        2. -6
          17 March 2020 10: 57
          There is nothing to modify yet. There is no Union 5 in iron and it is hard to believe that it will fly ever.
          1. +3
            17 March 2020 10: 59
            We will see how it turns out, and in what time frame.
            1. -5
              17 March 2020 11: 01
              IMHO, just like with the Angara it will work. And it could not be otherwise. The system is "sharpened" not for the result, but for the process.
      2. +3
        17 March 2020 11: 04
        Avior ....and what about the launch vehicle for the complex?
        Zenith dropped, as I understand it?
        Is there another?


        So far, only Roskosmos' projects for Soyuz-5. Now they plan to repair the platform and modernize, the first launch at the end of 2021.
        Although her previous "merits" are as follows.
        Construction began in 1995. (founders: USA Boing, Russia RSC Energia, Norway Aker, Ukraine Yuzhmash) The first launch in 1999, the last in 2014 (Yuzhmash was blown away after the coup in Ukraine). In total, over 20 years, 36 launches were made, 32 successful (3 accidents and 1 unsuccessful)
        In 2016 the project was bought by the S 7 group.
        Let's see what happens from this. hi
        1. 0
          17 March 2020 11: 51
          (Yuzhmash was blown away after the coup in Ukraine)

          did not understand this phrase.
          As a launch vehicle, a three-stage Zenit-3SL rocket was used - a modification of the Zenit-2 launch vehicle with a DM booster. The main developer - Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (Dnipro), was produced at the Yuzhmash Dnepropetrovsk plant.

          On August 14, 2017, S7 confirmed that it would use Zenit until 2023, after which it would switch to Soyuz-5 [51].
          On September 21, 2017, a source in the rocket and space industry told the media that Russia would not supply Yuzhmash with components for Zenit launch vehicles - the control system manufactured in Russia and the RD-171 first-stage engine will be delivered bypassing Ukraine directly to USA, missile rebuilding and testing will be carried out in Long Beach [52].
          On October 3, 2017, the head of RSC Energia Vladimir Solntsev told the media that at the first stage of using the cosmodrome, only Zenit will be launched from it. At the second stage, after the modernization of the cosmodrome and the appearance of the Soyuz-5 carrier, the Zenit will be abandoned [53].
          On February 13, 2018, the general director of S7 Space Transport Systems (a subsidiary of the S7 group) Sergey Sopov told the media that the company ordered the production of 12 launch vehicles from Yuzhmash until 2023, based on the project's self-sufficiency of 3-4 launches in year. Each Zenith includes a fully Russian-made RD-171M first stage engine, a second stage combustion chamber, a control system and many other components. In total, about 150 domestic enterprises are involved in cooperation. Their share in value terms of the cost of the rocket is 80%. Fulfillment of the contract for 12 Zenits will bring Russian enterprises half a billion dollars [54].
          The Zenit launch vehicle for the first launch as part of the resumption of the Sea Launch project can be manufactured in 2019. The carrier was to be built by Ukraine, with the participation of Russia, and the final assembly of the rocket was planned to be carried out in the USA [55]. In March 2019, a message was received to cancel this scheme.

          S7 Space paid Yuzhmash 30 million in advance, and then broke off the contract.
          It is not clear if Yuzhmash is unable to fulfill the contract, they should have demanded a forfeit from him, and 30 million will be returned, but nothing is heard about this.
          https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2019/03/21/rossiyskaya-s7-razryvaet-kontrakt-na-postavku-raket-s-ukrainskim-yuzhmashem
      3. 0
        17 March 2020 11: 29
        Quote: Avior
        Is there another?
        Union is easier than Zenith. Launcher remake and forward.
    8. 0
      17 March 2020 10: 50
      In general, this project currently has more questions than answers.
      1. -5
        17 March 2020 11: 03
        Let the private owner deal with these issues. We have had continuous questions in the state program for 30 years.
        1. 0
          17 March 2020 18: 38
          Quote: ultra
          We have had continuous questions in the state program for 30 years.

          But you have, as you can see, solid answers. And for all the questions.
    9. -11
      17 March 2020 11: 15
      "Everything is as always. Even though you plow and at least forge .. all the same you will receive a voucher .. it's humor. But in general, the reduction leads to the addition of work with the previous, or even lower salary remaining. Nothing new in +. When the salary depends from ktu, from the point of view of the foreman and the bonuses from the point of view of the top management. The workers will be infringed. The trade union and labor protection only for reporting. Do not work for the workers, they only parasitize.
      more
      Alexey I.
      July 21 2019
      Without tears do not look. Wretchedness and poverty. Instead of missiles, valves and cranes for Gazprom. Workers are dressed as wetters. In the plant management, dirt, darkness and tattered (still Soviet) linoleum. Only the faces of a private security company guarding the plant shine. RFP guard 25 thousand and the economist at the factory 18.
      Dmitry P.
      10 May 2019
      One of the last factories in the city, which works and tries to survive. Pensioners and staff are periodically laid off. By the end of the shift, minibuses flock to "cut down" on the departing workers. Glory to Russian cosmonautics!
      Alexander Voronezh
      City Expert 7 level
      October 24 2019
      Bomzhatnik fat-bellied bosses and poor workers, it’s a pity the mochalin left, he didn’t put things in order
      Anatoly Dmitrievich S.

      October 13 2019
      Kumovy plant, still afloat, for a long time, no - not known.
      Tatyana E.
      October 24 2019
      All 45 years, from hardware to thinking " negative These are the responses of Voronezh residents about "the flagship of the Russian rocket engine building. And I think that everywhere is about the same.
      1. -1
        17 March 2020 18: 46
        Workers will be hurt
        Have you seen Detroit? Take an interest somehow. It was once the flagship of the automotive industry in the United States, and now it is half extinct and abandoned. And mind you, the states did not have the devastation and crisis of the 90s, but on the contrary, they had everything in chocolate. So, the market just decided. What can you do, capitalism, his mother. They wanted the "blessed west", they got it. For that fought for it and ran.
    10. 0
      17 March 2020 11: 48
      Well, repair, little by little, to Cuba or Venezuela, closer to the equator.
    11. -2
      17 March 2020 16: 01
      The SEA Launch Launch Platform and Management Ship can be based at one of Vietnam's ports.
      Pretty close to the equator.
      The weather conditions in the region are not simple enough, but it is quite possible to find "windows" for starting operations.
      It is logistically more convenient for many Asian customers to deliver launch cargo to Vietnam.

      Replacing Zenith with Soyuz-5 is a resolved issue.
      By the time of the first launch of Sayuz-5 in 2022, they will reconstruct the launch platform and the control vessel.
    12. 0
      17 March 2020 21: 54
      S-7 ... Something flashed that the main enthusiast of the sea launch was the deceased co-owner of S-7 Natalia Fileva.
      1. 0
        18 March 2020 17: 16
        A bit wrong. The head of this program was R. Dzhuraeva, whiling away almost destroyed TsENKI. Escaped abroad and returned to lead S7 (they will plunder everything, and the exit will be "0")
    13. 0
      17 March 2020 23: 13
      Quote: orionvitt
      Have you seen Detroit? Take some interest

      It may be easier for you from the ruins of Detroit, but my country interests me.
    14. 0
      18 March 2020 00: 57
      Quote: Ramazan
      If there is still competition in the field of astronautics, which is unlikely, but theoretically quite possible, this will only be a plus for our country.

      In a country in which the fixed assets and production capacities of strategically important industries are in the hands of the state, competition will not arise by definition. The state is the most cruel monopolist, in the hands of which are all the levers of safeguarding the monopoly - finance, the banking system, borders, the tax system, the police, and, finally, the army.
      Pampering with mini-racks and launching kites into space will be allowed. The main task is to fulfill government orders to launch state carriers and satellites into orbits that are not reachable from the territory of Russia.
    15. -1
      18 March 2020 01: 08
      Quote: ultra
      There is nothing to modify yet. There is no Union 5 in iron and it is hard to believe that it will fly ever.

      Do not trust yourselves, push yourself and do not go to the toilet, so as not to fall out.

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