**Sea Launch FAILURE Live Update Pages with NEW images**<\/em> \u2013 170,000 reads since failure.<\/p>\n **Brand new and exclusive videos of the explosion**<\/font><\/em> Free to all forum members (registration is free \u2013 we do not use your e-mail for spam, only to send you your forum password \u2013 which is automated).<\/font> <\/em><\/p>\n Section includes previous Sea Launch videos: <\/font>Sea Launch \u2013 XM-4 \u2013 Oct 30 and Sea Launch \u2013 Koreasat 5 \u2013 Aug 22.<\/em><\/p>\n 300 Megabytes of exclusive super hi res images of the Zenit 3SL failure available on L2.<\/p>\n NASA educational resources (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n With the investigation into the Zenit 3SL still ongoing, the resulting grounding also ensures delays to Land Launch\u2019s modified version of the Zenit vehicle, the three-stage Zenit-3SLB.<\/p>\n Although Sea Launch\u2019s president Rob Peckham noted that he expects a return to flight for the Zenit 3SL to occur later this year, Intelsat\u2019s increased customer demand has forced them to act, moving their satellite launches to Arianespace. <\/p>\n The switch to their major rival follows the loss of the Hughes Network Systems, LCC contract for the SPACEWAY 3 satellite, which also moved to Ariane 5 back at the start of March. <\/p>\n \u2018At this juncture, Intelsat has eight satellites under construction, with three to four of them slated to launch this year, starting with Galaxy 17 in May. Its launch will be followed by those of Intelsat 11, Horizons-2 and, possibly, Galaxy 18,\u2019 confirmed Jim Frownfelter, Intelsat\u2019s chief operating officer, quoted by Reed Business Information. <\/p>\n \u2018The current launch schedule for our satellites has been shuffled due to the widely reported disruptions in the launch-service industry and, as a result, has impacted our cap-ex plan. <\/p>\n \u2018(The Sea Launch failure) caused us to accelerate the build of a contingent satellite,\u2019 Frownfelter noted, adding that they have placed orders for two additional replacement satellites and one ground-spare satellite \u2018It is a ground spare and is positioned as fast replacement for Intelsat 11 in event that its launch is unsuccessful.\u2019<\/p>\n Intelsat II and Horizon 2 are expected to launch on an Ariane 5 this September.<\/p>\n Also noted in Intelsat\u2019s plans is accelerating the replacement of satellite Intelsat 709 by Intelsat 15 \u2013 thus increasing the capacity of Intelsat 14.<\/p>\n **INFINITY: 10 minute STS MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em><\/font> \u2013 **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> <\/font><\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Intelsat have cancelled two launches that were initially manifested with the Sea Launch Company\u2019s Land Launch wing, following the failure of the Zenit 3SL in January. Sea Launch \u2013 which provides contracting and management functions for the Launch Land systems \u2013 share commonality with their versions of the Zenit 3SL launch vehicle. Intelsat\u2019s Horizon 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/font><\/p>\n
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