03 June 2004 05:26
Market probed for Land Launch space project
MOSCOW. June 3 (Interfax) - Russian specialists are studying the market for Land Launch, a new project to use
Zenit-class rockets to launch satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Land Launch is a project of the international Sea Launch consortium, which launches space vehicles from a floating
platform in the Pacific Ocean.
"At the moment, specialists are researching this market, and this fact is evidence that there are prospects for
this project," Sergei Kravchenko, vice president for international relations at Boeing and its president for Russia
and the CIS, told a news conference.
Sea Launch and International Space Services company signed an agreement in Moscow in mid-January on cooperation
principles for Land Launch. They hope the project's first commercial launch will take place in the fourth quarter
of 2005. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG AER] as tl <>
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