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Sea Launch command ship arrives in Russia from US by Staff Writers Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 18, 2020
The Sea Launch Commander command ship, which left the United States at the end of February, has arrived in Slavyanka in the Primorsky Territory in Russia's Far East, according to global ship-tracking website https://www.marinetraffic.com. The ship left the port of Long Beach near Los Angeles on 28 February. The Sea Launch Commander is a mobile maritime spaceport, designed to launch commercial payloads near the equator using specially-made rockets. The vessel, along with the Odyssey launch platform, is a part of the Sea Launch project, developed as a joint venture of companies from Russia, Ukraine, the US and Norway in 1995. The project was used to deploy nearly three dozen commercial satellites into orbit between 1999 and 2014. In 2014, the joint venture was abandoned. In April 2018, the project was purchased by the private Russian airline and aerospace company S7 Group. In 2019, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin stated that the Sea Launch vessels could be relocated to Russian Far East's Sovetskaya Harbour to launch the Soyuz-5, a new rocket, being developed by the Progress Rocket Space Centre. Source: RIA Novosti
Rocket Lab's next mission to launch satellites for NASA, NRO and Australian university Long Beach CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 Rocket Lab, a space technology company and the global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has announced that its next mission will deploy payloads for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra Space. The launch will take place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula, with a 14-day launch window scheduled to commence from 27 March 2020 NZT. The mission wil ... read more
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