Sea Launch (opérateur de lancement)

Steph a écrit:Ils vont faire partie du consortium si j'ai bien compris, mais une part toujours inférieure à Boeing (25% contre 40% respectivement). Comment se fait-il alors qu'Energia ait le "rôle directeur" ?

Ceci dit, les Russes avaient quand même déjà la possibilité de lancer depuis l'équateur auparavant, en achetant un lancement. Ça ne changera donc pas, ils vont quand même pas lancer gratis :)

La plate-forme mobile Sea Launch est rejoint par son navire de commandement à Long Beach, où la société est basée.La société indique qu'elle n'a pas l'intention de déplacer son siège, malgré la proposition de rachat. (Gary Friedman, Los Angeles Times / 17 mai 2010)

Bankrupt Sea Launch signs contract with AsiaSat
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: July 12, 2010

Sea Launch netted a contract last week to send an unspecified AsiaSat communications satellite to orbit between 2012 and 2014, strengthening the company's backlog as it hopes to emerge from bankruptcy later this year.

AsiaSat will assign a satellite to the launch slot at a later date, according to a Sea Launch statement released Monday. The spacecraft will launch on a Zenit 3SL rocket from the Odyssey platform in the Pacific Ocean.

"We are very pleased that we have arrived at this agreement, which will be beneficial for both Sea Launch and AsiaSat," said Kjell Karlsen, president and general manager of Sea Launch. "We're looking forward to successfully executing this mission with AsiaSat and we appreciate the confidence and trust that AsiaSat has placed with Sea Launch."

AsiaSat currently has one satellite under construction at Space Systems/Loral for launch in late 2011. The firm is leading satellite operator in the Asia-Pacific region.

"We are excited to take part in the future growth of this important satellite operator," Karlsen said in a statement.

The AsiaSat deal adds another contract to Sea Launch's backlog, which was nearly emptied in 2009 as the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Satellite operators moved more than a half-dozen payloads to rival Proton and Ariane rockets due to fears of lengthy launch delays on Sea Launch.

Intelsat and Eutelsat both moved some of their satellites to other launch providers, but the companies kept their contracts with Sea Launch and vowed to assign new payloads to the Zenit rocket.

AsiaSat moved their newest satellite from Sea Launch to the Proton rocket. AsiaSat 5 successfully blasted off in August 2009.

"We are pleased to conclude a launch service contract with Sea Launch to support the launch of one of our future satellites," said Peter Jackson, chief executive officer of Hong Kong-based AsiaSat. "The Zenit 3SL launch vehicle is based on a mature, flight-proven design. We look forward to a satisfactory launch service provided by this highly reliable launch system."

Sea Launch now has four announced missions planned after the AsiaSat agreement, but there are more launch deals waiting to be unveiled after the company emerges from bankruptcy, according to Paula Korn, a Sea Launch spokesperson.

The pending announcements were delayed at the request of Sea Launch's customers, Korn said in an e-mail.

Sea Launch expects to win approval of its plan of reorganization in a Delaware bankruptcy court hearing July 29, the statement said.

Energia Overseas Ltd., a subsidiary of the Russian aerospace giant Energia, plans to purchase 85 percent of the stock in Sea Launch for $140 million in cash. The unsecured creditors, or firms that acquired a stake in Sea Launch in exchange for owed debts, will collectively hold 15 percent ownership in the reorganized launch business, according to court filings.

In addition to the stock purchase, Energia is providing $200 million in working capital to Sea Launch.

Sea Launch is on track to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy by October, the company's statement said.

The resumption of normal operations will lead to a flight of the company's Land Launch subsidiary in the first quarter of 2011. The return-to-flight launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will haul the Intelsat 18 communications satellite to orbit.

Sea Launch's next flight from the ocean-based Odyssey launch platform is scheduled for the third quarter of 2011, Korn said.

Karlsen said in a May interview that the Sea Launch mission in mid-2011 would likely carry a Eutelsat or Intelsat communications satellite.

Steph a écrit:Tu avais toi même créé un sujet sur l'après faillite ici :
http://www.forum-conquete-spatiale.fr/russie-f9/les-lancements-de-sealaunch-reprendront-en-2011-t10781.htm

:)

The new Sea Launch will be 95 percent owned by affiliates of RSC Energia of Korolev, Russia

montmein69 a écrit:Autre article sur la "reprise" de Sea-Launch.

Rien de bien nouveau, il y a bon espoir que les tribunaux américains (le CFIUS Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States qui donne son avis sur des acquisitions par des investisseurs étrangers) acceptent le re-financement.

The new Sea Launch will be 95 percent owned by affiliates of RSC Energia of Korolev, Russia

http://www.spacenews.com/launch/100728-energia-own-sealaunch.html

nikolai39 a écrit:Pour info, le site web de Sea Launch est mort.

Il est en sommeil
Et prévoit une reprise au troisième trimestre 2011.

Buddy a écrit:vu le maigre manifeste de lancements, Sea Launch va immanquablement avoir des problèmes de trésorerie. Les fournisseurs vont également être frileux à faire crédit...
Adossée à Energia, Sea Launch devrait le faire, mais bon ce n'est pas ça qui rétablira la confiance des clients et des fournisseurs.

Le 31 mai 2011, du matériel pour la fusée Zenit et l'étage Block-DM-SL est parti du port d'Oktyabrsky pour rejoindre les installations de Sea Launch à Long Beach en Californie pour préparer la reprise des vols au cours du troisième trimestre 2011.

Sea Launch AG, headquartered in Bern, Switzerland

“We have been working with Intelsat for some time on this and we are very happy to have found a solution for our customer,”

BERN, Switzerland, May 31, 2011 – Sea Launch has resumed shipments of Zenit-3SL hardware in preparation for its return to launch operations in the third quarter of 2011. The two-stage Zenit-2S booster, manufactured by PO Yuzhmash of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine and the Block-DM-SL manufactured by OAO Rocket and Space Corporation Energia of Moscow, Russian Federation departed the Port of Oktyabrsky on May 31, 2011 for transit to Sea Launch Home Port facilities in Long Beach, California where launch vehicle integration and combined operations take place.

Production oversight for the Zenit-3SL vehicle is carried out by Energia Logistics, with facilities in Moscow (“ELRF”) and Long Beach, California (“ELUS”). Energia Logistics' responsibilities focus on closely monitoring hardware production schedules with regular visits to contractor and subcontractor facilities alongside Sea Launch customers to verify and assure on-time delivery and performance.

“Sea Launch has ten Zenit-3SL's on order, covering requirements for missions # 31 through # 40 which will satisfy existing and future customer requirements for launches through the end of 2013” said Kjell Karlsen, President of Sea Launch. “We are very pleased with having achieved yet another important milestone towards the resumption of launch operations later this year”.

Bern, Switzerland – June 2, 2011 – Sea Launch AG will launch the Intelsat 18 (IS-18) communications satellite in the second half of 2011 under a contract with Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services.

Built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, IS-18 is one of ten STAR GEO communications satellites ordered by Intelsat and will carry a C-band and a Ku-band payload and will be located in an orbital slot at 180 degrees East Longitude. IS-18 will have a launch mass of 3,200 kg (7,055 lb.) and is designed for 15 years of service. IS-18’s C-band payload will serve Eastern Asia, the Pacific and the Western United States and its Ku-band payload will serve French Polynesia, Eastern Australia and the United States.

The satellite will be lofted to an optimized geosynchronous transfer orbit using the reliable Zenit-3SLB vehicle launching from Site 45 at the Zenit Launch Complex located within the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

“We are most pleased that Intelsat came to Sea Launch to provide the launch solution for IS-18,” said Kjell Karlsen, president of Sea Launch. “This decision reflects our customer|s continued confidence in our renewed capabilities to provide quality launch services on schedule and with maximum flexibility.”