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 ...

If you must fail while launching a rocket, you hope it gets destroyed in a fiery ball of fire. At least that makes for a good show worth a few million dollars. Sadly, the people from Sea Launch didn’t ...

A rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded Tuesday during launch from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific. “There was an explosion as we were lifting off,” said ...

A commercial Sea Launch rocket failed 40 seconds after liftoff from its floating launch platform in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, destroying the Intelsat IS-27 telecommunications satellite and ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Even now, long after the end of the Cold War, it is an odd sight. At the tip of the former Long Beach Naval Station, a brawny rocket built in Russia and Ukraine stands atop ...

Approximately 40 seconds after the launch from the Odyssey Sea Launch platform in the pacific, the Zenit-3SL rocket carrying the Intelsat 27 failed. The launch was at 1:57 a.m. EST. The reason for ...

LOS ANGELES — A Sea Launch rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded Tuesday during launch from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific. The Boeing-built NSS-8 satellite ...

PARIS — Eutelsat’s Atlantic Bird 7 telecommunications satellite will be launched in September aboard a Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket operated from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean in what will ...

SEA LAUNCH: A Zenit-3SL rocket delivered the Intelsat Americas-8 communications satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit after lifting off from Boeing's Sea Launch platform at 14:03 GMT June 23.

Pivdenmash (Dnipro) has welcomed a possibility of resuming production of the Zenit-3SL launch vehicle for Sea Launch project announced by the new owner of the platform – Russia's S7 Group. The ...

MOSCOW, May 27. /ITAR-TASS/. Zenit-3SL carrier with Eutelsat 3B telecommunication satellite has taken off from the Odyssey floating cosmodrome in the Pacific Ocean. The Sea Launch’s site broadcasted ...

Over two years after its last launch, Russia and Ukraine’s Zenit rocket launched Wednesday, deploying Angola’s first satellite, AngoSat-1, in a mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The ...