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Article: BOEING HAS EYE ON SPACE WITH SEA LAUNCH PROJECT.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- May 5, 1997
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What can cruise the ocean at better than 13 knots on pontoons bigger than a Trident submarine, is as tall as a 20-story building and can ride out hurricane-force winds without spilling a cup of coffee?
It's the Odyssey, a converted North Sea drilling platform that is the centerpiece of a multinational project led by The Boeing Co. to do what's never been done before - launch satellites into space from the ocean.
Next summer, a Russian-Ukrainian rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Odyssey near Christmas Island in the Pacific, sending a new-generation Hughes communication satellite into a stationary orbit 22,300 miles above Earth.
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