Land Launch refers to a service product of Sea Launch SA. There is no entity or company called Land Launch. Sea Launch created the Land Launch offering to address lighter satellites directly into

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or into geosynchronous transfer orbit, while

Sea Launch Sea Launch was a multinational—Norway, Russia, Ukraine, United States—spacecraft launch company founded in 1995 that provided orbital launch services from 1999 to 2014. The company used a mobile maritime launch platform for equatorial l ...

continues to address the heavy satellite launch market. In 2002,

created Land Launch with its

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

n and Ukrainian partners. The Russian and Ukrainian partners formed a

n company Space International Services (SIS) to provide the launch services and launch operations. While the

company maintains the rights to market Land Launch to the commercial community, the new entity SIS can market launch services to government customers. Land Launch uses Zenit rockets to conduct commercial

satellite A satellite or an artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. They have a variety of uses, including communication relay, weather forecasting, navigation ( GPS), broadcasting, scient ...

launches from the

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Site 45/1 in

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

. Land Launch missions differ from Sea Launch missions in that the

Zenit-3SLB The Zenit 3SLB or Zenit-3M was a Ukrainian expendable carrier rocket derived from the Zenit-2SB. It was a member of the Zenit family of rockets, which were designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Office. Produced at Yuzhmash, the rocket was a modifie ...

is used, as opposed to the

Zenit-3SL The Zenit-3SL was an expendable carrier rocket operated by Sea Launch. First flown in 1999, it was launched 36 times, with three failures and one partial failure. It was a member of the Zenit family of rockets, and is built by the Yuzhnoye Des ...

. The

utilizes substantially the same components as the

but a smaller payload fairing is used to accommodate the smaller satellites launched from its northern operating location. The first launch was conducted on 28 April 2008 at 05:00 GMT, when a Zenit-3SLB was used to place

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( AMOS-60) a

communications satellite A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a Transponder (satellite communications), transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a Rad ...

, into a

. A second launch was completed on February 26, 2009, when Land Launch successfully launched the Telstar 11N mission. A commercial version of the two-stage

Zenit-2M The Zenit-2M, Zenit-2SB, Zenit-2SLB or Zenit-2FG was a Ukrainian expendable carrier rocket derived from the Zenit-3SL. It was a member of the Zenit family of rockets, which were designed by the Yuzhmash. Development The Zenit 2M was a mo ...

, the Zenit-2SLB, is also offered for commercial launches utilizing Land Launch. However, no launches have been contracted for this smaller rocket.

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Land Launch Home Page
Commercial launch service providers Space industry companies of Russia {{ukraine-company-stub

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