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Article: Take me out to the equator.(management of Sea Launch)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 6, 2002
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Tucked away in the middle of a former U.S. Navy base in California's Port of Long Beach is a multinational success story unthinkable a few years ago. There, a 667-foot ship and a 20-story refurbished oil rig form the heart of Sea Launch, an extraordinary collaboration of Americans, Norwegians, Russians, and Ukrainians engaged in a new space race. Their mission: to launch satellites more cheaply and efficiently than ever before.
Sea Launch, founded in 1995, fulfills that mission by doing exactly what its name implies. Later this month, Sea Launch will haul a PanAmSat telecommunications satellite to a spot on the equator in the South Pacific, where the satellite ...