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Article: Sea Launch seeks to overcome delays caused by a problematic launch a year ago.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2005
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Byline: Gary Robbins
Jun. 9--LONG BEACH -- 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 the Ukraine stands atop Odyssey, the world's only ocean-going spaceport, bearing a 12,125-pound payload.
The Zenit-3SL rocket sort of looks like a Soviet-era ballistic missile. But its milky white nosecone shelters a communications satellite that the Sea Launch Co. will send into orbit June 23rd to provide phone, television and Internet service to customers in North and South America, the Caribbean, Alaska and Hawaii.
At least, that was the ...