D*11 is scheduled for Sea Launch.. Looks like they had some setbacks today. So much for Summer 2007?
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/nss8/status.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/nss8/images/explosion.jpg
A Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket was destroyed while trying to lift off today, disappearing in a massive fireball that enveloped its floating launch platform in the Pacific Ocean. Lost in the explosion was the commercial NSS 8 telecommunications satellite.
Sea Launch had planned to conduct six commercial satellite deployment missions in 2007, with today's flight being the first. The schedule included the Thuraya 3 mobile communications satellite, direct-to-home broadcasting spacecraft for DirecTV and EchoStar, plus the Spaceway 3 broadband satellite and Galaxy 19 for Intelsat.
Obviously, it is too soon to know when Sea Launch will be able to resume flights.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/nss8/status.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/nss8/images/explosion.jpg
A Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket was destroyed while trying to lift off today, disappearing in a massive fireball that enveloped its floating launch platform in the Pacific Ocean. Lost in the explosion was the commercial NSS 8 telecommunications satellite.
Sea Launch had planned to conduct six commercial satellite deployment missions in 2007, with today's flight being the first. The schedule included the Thuraya 3 mobile communications satellite, direct-to-home broadcasting spacecraft for DirecTV and EchoStar, plus the Spaceway 3 broadband satellite and Galaxy 19 for Intelsat.
Obviously, it is too soon to know when Sea Launch will be able to resume flights.
