Russia's Space International Services and Sea Launch International won a contract with the Israeli aerospace industry to use the company's land launch system (Land Launch).
Russia's Space International Services and Sea Launch International won a contract with the Israeli aerospace industry to use the company's land launch system (Land Launch). As you may remember, the Amos 1 satellite was launched using the competing Ariane launcher from French Guiana, while the Amos 2 was launched from Kazakhstan using a Soyuz rocket from a subsidiary company of Ariane. In doing so, IAI takes advantage of the competition between the two launch giants.
The contract for putting the Amos 3 satellite into orbit by a Zenit 3SKB rocket into a geostationary orbit from the facility of the Land Launch Company at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the fourth quarter of 2007.
Levin Amos 3 will have respondents in both the KU and KA areas. Some of the beams will be mobile and it will serve Europe, the Middle East and the East Coast of the USA. Amos 3 is planned to operate for 12 years. It was built by the aerospace division of the aerospace industry and will be launched to its docking point at 4 degrees west, where it will join Amos 1 and Amos 2. Eventually Amos 3 will replace Amos 1 when it reaches the end of its life in 2008. Amos systems are owned and managed by Halal Communications.
Land Launch will mount the satellite on the third stage of the launch vehicle and carry out the launch itself using Zenith facilities in Baikonur. The company will rely on its past successes, and it will launch the Zenit-3SLB version of the Zenit-3SL missile used by the company in its launches from the sea.
Land Launch is a joint venture of Sea Launch and the Russian Space International Services (SIS), which is engaged in launching medium-sized satellites.
SIS is an international company headquartered in Moscow owned by SDO-Yuzhon and PO Yuzhma of Ukraine, as well as the Russian companies Energy, KBTM' TseNKI and Ural Mining Company, with the support of the Russian Space Agency. California-based Sea Launch is a company that provides launches for large communications satellites from a base in the Pacific Ocean at the equator. It is owned by Boeing, Norway's Akar ASA, Russia's Energy and Ukraine's SDO Yuzhnoye/PO Yuzhmash.
