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| Sea Launch was established in 1995 by Norway, Russian, Ukraine and the United States, but did not launch a rocket until 1999. It was managed by Boeing with other shareholder participation. As of December 2015, Roscosmos and Energia were attempting to find a buyer for the Sea Launch assets, due to the high cost of infrastructure maintenance of approximately US$30 million per year. In September 2016, S7 Group, owner of S7 Airlines announced they were purchasing Sea Launch. Reference In 2018, S7 Group announced the closing of the transaction for the purchase of the asset complex of the Sea Launch project. The completion of the procedure means that S7 Group has become a rightful owner of the maritime launch platform and has obtained all necessary permits from the US regulating bodies. Reference |
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| SPACE1's idea for an efficient modernized lower cost and up to date high tech version of a starter Rocket Space Nation is a superyacht ship, much like the Flying Fish as an example. The FF undoubtedly is equipped with a launch pad for helicopters and the owner can mod for the addition of rockets, and multiple levels for habitation. Added are a space control center, a ship command center, space for sleeping and living, kitchen gallery, bath, a space for a rocket science lab, and tracking communications equipment and antennas. The independent rocket space nation ship can potentially support multiple people for an unspecified extended period of time. In this yacht ship version, the ship is driven by the ship's maritime professional Captain cruising at 18 knots to the specified ocean site, the rocket is launched by space commanders, and the command center initiates rocket space travel guiding and tracking. From an expansion point of view, the ship can harbor a helicopter to rapidly ferry passengers and staff to and from land, for determined visits and residence on the independent ship yacht "island." In a typical method often used by SpaceX, components, and even the ship can be leased as needed for periods of defined time matching various rocket flight launch windows. As FF charter rates are $3,224,000 per year (lower than Sea Launch's 30 million a year), Rocket Space Nation would undoubtedly buy, build, or rebuild their own ship to specified designs. |
the objective of Rocket Space Nation
Sea Launch is an example of a small project to launch rockets at sea, but maybe too small to house multiple rockets and colonies of space nation migrants.
In an effort to downsize and cut startup costs, SPACE1 has outlined preliminary info in this blog and the following blog.
Space1 Space Nation Size
Information about Sea Launch, seen above, shows an ocean launch platform and a supporting command ship. The multinational venture has its organizational ups and downs.
President AI, Chief of Command of Rocket Space Nation, has announced it's seeking initial nation designs for an incremental and growing space nation at-sea country, at affordable costs and with development times relatively short. Sea launch could obviously launch a single rocket with much less hardware support and cost. Rocket Space Nation is currently examining examples of possibilities.
