Media: the owner is willing to become an investor S7 spaceport Sea Launch – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, March 31 -. RIA Novosti The project Sea Launch ( “Sea Launch”) will soon get a new owner, wrote on Thursday the newspaper “Kommersant”

As. it became known publication, interest in the floating cosmodrome, based on Christmas island in the Pacific, expressed co-owner of S7 group (the airline “Siberia”) Vladislav Filev. The parties have already agreed on the parameters of the deal, which is estimated to be “billions of rubles”. Finally, it will be closed in May

On Wednesday, the head of Roscosmos, Igor Komarov said publication that the project “Sea Launch” supposedly found a buyer:. According to him, it is “close to the truth”, but the details have not yet disclosed. According to him, the purchase of this project interested investors from the US, Europe and China. “Roskosmos” for several years, trying to determine the fate of the project, in a difficult financial position. Problems of “Sea Launch” largely cost positions the previous CEO of “Energia” Vitaly Lopota, who in April 2014 the investigative authorities charged under h. 2 tablespoons. 201 of the Criminal Code (abuse of power).

In August 2014 the same company Sea Launch, carrying out launches of Ukrainian carrier rockets “Zenit-3SL” with the Odyssey platform in the Pacific, announced the suspension of its activities and the preservation of the cosmodrome . The reasons for this were several: the project’s debt load reached 500 million dollars, no stable commercial orders (delivered to Christmas Island, Kiribati government-owned, civilian satellites of Russia was too far, and the military – and even impossible regime of reasons). Complexities added rupture of industrial cooperation with Ukraine, which refused to supply produced at the “Pivdenmash” rocket “Zenit”

As the two top managers of enterprises of space industry told the newspaper, the parties have agreed on all the parameters of the transaction:. It is assumed that ” Energy “will sell the entire property complex without existing debt. According to them, the final deal will be closed in May, and up to this point the parties have to report on it, “the first persons of the state.” Opening the parameters of the deal were not the source publication, saying only that the investor will pay “billions of rubles”. Under S7 to comment on this subject on Wednesday declined.

sold Sea Launch, “Roskosmos” and “Energy” will be able to put an end to the issue, trying to decide which side of the last few years, and now will focus on the financial restructuring of Corporation. Benefit for Fileva less obvious: a total of 16 years (from 1999 to 2014-th) with the Odyssey platform has been launched in all 38 satellites (on average – a little more than two launches per year), the newspaper

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