MOSCOW, Jan 23 Roscosmos is planning to find a foreign partner to resume the operation of Morskoy start» and modernize its control system for launching Soyuz-5 rockets, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with Russian Space magazine.
& # 34; 34;, to modernize its control system for launches of "Soyuz-5". To share the risks and financial burden at the first stage, as well as to jointly operate the complex in the future, it makes sense to find a foreign partner who, due to its geographical location, cannot have a cosmodrome on its territory and would be interested in a partnership on a floating cosmodrome", — he said.
According to Rogozin, Sea Launch was ahead of its time, since such projects are only now appearing in the United States and China. According to the head of Roskosmos, he inspected both ships involved in the project in the port of Slavyanka in Primorye in 2020 and was amazed at how the entire cosmodrome, all service systems, as well as three launch vehicles, could be placed on two ships. In conclusion, I would say that the «revitalization» of Sea Launch is an important task for Roscosmos today,» he concluded. The Sea Launch project was created in 1995 to operate a sea-based rocket and space complex. It went through bankruptcy and reorganization in 2009. In 2014, due to events in Ukraine, where Zenit rockets were manufactured for launches from a floating spaceport, the project was suspended after 36 launches. In 2016, S7 Group bought the Sea Launch project property complex — the assembly and command ship Sea Launch Commander and the mobile launch platform Odyssey. In March 2020, the complex was transferred to the port of Slavyanka in Primorye. At the end of April last year, the head of S7, Vladislav Filev, announced that the Sea Launch project was frozen until better times. Around the same time, it became known that Roskosmos set a task for its enterprises to conduct a feasibility study for the resumption of Sea Launch to continue launches from 2024. jpg» />Rogozin said that thousands of satellites will be built in the world in the coming years