{"id":76511,"date":"2014-08-22T18:56:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T10:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sea-launch-scaling-back-amid-manifest-gap\/"},"modified":"2014-08-22T18:56:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T10:56:34","slug":"sea-launch-scaling-back-amid-manifest-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sea-launch-scaling-back-amid-manifest-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Launch Scaling Back Amid Manifest Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-22-2014] <b>Sea Launch <\/b>is reducing its head count among staff at both its Nyon, Switzerland headquarters and at <b>Energia Logistics<\/b>\u2019 Long Beach, Calif. site to compensate for the lack of launches this year. Sea Launch is also temporarily taking its Launch Commander and Odyssey vessels out of service, a move the company said is common during periods of inactivity in the marine industry.<\/p>\n<p>Sea Launch said it will use this downtime to upgrade its launch and support systems and finalizing internal trade studies relative to available vehicle configuration changes. The launch company reports it is also looking into shore-based power for the vessels while in port.<\/p>\n<p>The last launch of the Zenit-3SL was for the <b>Eutelsat<\/b> 3b satellite in May 2014. Sea Launch anticipates resuming launch activity during the mid-2015 to mid-2016 time frame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of this gap in our launch manifest, Sea Launch is taking the opportunity to pursue all prudent business solutions to realize significant cost savings in labor, maintenance and fuel while maintaining the capability to call-up the vessels as needed,\u201d said Serguei Gugkaev, CEO of Sea Launch. \u201cWhile any reduction in staff is regrettable, Sea Launch will retain key personnel across all corporate and technical functions, allowing the company to ramp-up to meet its next launch commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-22-2014] Sea Launch is reducing its head count among staff at both its Nyon, Switzerland headquarters and at Energia Logistics\u2019 Long Beach, Calif. site to compensate for the lack of launches this year. Sea Launch is also temporarily taking its Launch Commander and Odyssey vessels out of service, a move the company said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76512,"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-76511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76511"}],"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=76511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}