Sea LaunchHughes goes for four more ocean-platform launches
CNN Interactive, June 16, 1999
Hughes Space and Communications has put in four more orders with an international venture for satellite launches from a floating platform in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, it was announced Wednesday. Sea Launch Co., a partnership between Boeing Commercial Space Co. and companies in Norway, Russian and Ukraine, already had agreements for 10 launch contracts from Hughes and five others with Loral Co. "This is a large boost in confidence from our largest customer - Hughes," said Sea Launch spokesman Terrance Scott. "It also expands our launch manifest to 2003."
