Jan 30 2007
From The Space Library
A Zenit-3SL rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded during launch from the Sea Launch consortium’s floating platform Odyssey. The Netherlands–based SES New Skies NSS-8 satellite would have provided audio, video, data, and Internet services to countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East. Sea Launch spokesperson Paula Korn stated that the consortium was forming a failure-review oversight board to investigate the cause of the accident. A Sea Launch helicopter dispatched to the launch platform would assess the damage.
Associated Press, “Sea Launch Rocket with Satellite Explodes on Lift-off,” 31 January 2007; Lon Rains, “Sea Launch Rocket Explodes During Launch,” Space.com, 30 January 2007, http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070130_sealaunch_explosion.html (accessed 4 November 2009).
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