Land Launch


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 geosynchronous orbit or into geosynchronous transfer orbit, while Sea Launch continues to address the heavy satellite launch market.
In 2002, Sea Launch created Land Launch with its Russian and Ukrainian partners. The Russian and Ukrainian partners formed a Russian company Space International Services to provide the launch services and launch operations. While the Sea Launch 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 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 45/1 in Kazakhstan. Land Launch missions differ from Sea Launch missions in that the Zenit-3SLB is used, as opposed to the Zenit-3SL. The Zenit-3SLB utilizes substantially the same components as the Zenit-3SL 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 AMOS-3 a communications satellite, into a geosynchronous orbit.
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-2SLB, is also offered for commercial launches utilizing Land Launch. However no launches have been contracted for this smaller rocket.

Launches

NumberDateTypeSerial-No.Launch SitePayloadPayload TypeOrbitOutcomeRemarks
12008-04-28Zenit 3SLBBaikonur Cosmodrome Site 45AMOS-3Commercial communications satelliteGSOSuccessFirst Land Launch flight
22009-02-26Zenit 3SLBBaikonur Cosmodrome Site 45Telstar 11NCommercial communications satelliteGTOSuccess
32009-06-22Zenit 3SLBBaikonur Cosmodrome Site 45MEASAT-3aCommercial communications satelliteGTOSuccess
42009-11-30Zenit 3SLBBaikonur Cosmodrome Site 45Intelsat 15Commercial communications satelliteGTOSuccess
52011-10-05Zenit 3SLBBaikonur Cosmodrome Site 45Intelsat 18Commercial communications satelliteGTOSuccess
62013-09-31Zenit 3SLBBaikonur Cosmodrome Site 45AMOS-4Commercial communications satelliteGTOSuccess