The Israeli company is offering to crank the Russian-Ukrainian missile “Zenit” with floating cosmodrome in the Pacific, an international consortium of “Sea Launch”, said a source in the space industry.
“In the near future it is planned to hold talks with one of the leading Israeli companies the space industry on the sale of the consortium,” – said the source, “Interfax».
According to him, the state represented by the Russian Space Agency and the Joint rocket-space corporation refused purchase “Sea Launch”, so is working to find a possible foreign buyer.
The source noted that Israel is the most suitable buyer consortium, as it has traditionally friendly relations with the United States, where the headquarters of the “Sea Launch” and not will experience difficulties in obtaining missiles collected in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine on “Pivdenmash».
Recall that in late June, it was reported that the unique floating cosmodrome “Sea Launch” can preserve for two years due to the fact, that the production of rockets “Zenit 3SL» is located in Ukraine.
Two months later, it became known that the “Sea Launch” suspended operations until mid-2015.
International company “Sea Launch “was founded in 1995 with the participation of the American company Boeing, Russia’s” Energy “, the Norwegian” Kvarner “and Ukrainian enterprises CB” South “and” Pivdenmash. ” It is the largest international commercial project development and operation of space-rocket complex sea-based. The company and the eponymous floating cosmodrome created to bring to life the idea of launch rockets from the equator.
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