"ODYSSEUS" MODERN ADVENTURES.
"ODYSSEUS" MODERN ADVENTURES.
In 1991 to a mooring of the Vyborg ship-building factory
The scorched oil platform has been moored. From it
Oil on a shelf in the North Sea was extracted. But there was a fire.
Hardly then somebody could assume, looking on
The smoked vast object, that it should become floating
The cosmodrome.
In Vyborg a platform have restored, and it has gone in
Norway. After 1995 when the project "Sea start" became
To be realised in "gland", on shipyard "Kvarner Rosenberg" in
Stavanger it has been preliminary reconstructed under the first
In the world the floating cosmodrome which besides is and
The private. Norwegians have named a platform "Odysseus". Definitive
Transformation of the oil platform constructed in the eighties in
Japan, in the floating cosmodrome has occurred in Vyborg, where
The platform has come in May of last year. For this purpose on it
It was necessary to establish from above 3500 t the automated
The equipment necessary for start of rockets. These are tens
Kilometres of pipes from stainless steel for storage and refuelling
Rockets liquid oxygen and kerosene, for a pneumatic, powerful
Transportno-elevating starting complex for delivery and
Rocket installations on a starting table, a starting table with
Designs for tap of the gas streams which are thrown up from snuffled
Engines, equipment for check of a rocket and razgonnogo the block
At different stages of preparation for start and many other things from
Difficult kosmodromnogo economy.
And here a year later, on May, 26th, the company "Sea start",
Which founders are American "Boeing" (40 %),
Russian RKK "Energy" (25 %), the English-Norwegian international
Inzhiniringovo-building group "п п п я п?п я " (20 %) and Ukrainian
KB "Southern"/on "JUzhmash" (15 %), solemnly declared about
End of building of "Odysseus" and sborochno-command vessel
(SKS) "Si Lonch the Commander" which was equiped additionally in
Petersburg at Kanonersky ship-repair factory. On it
To occasion high-ranking visitors have gathered in St.-Petersburg,
Domestic and foreign press and, of course, management
"Sea start" and the companies-founders: Alain Eshbi -
The president and the general manager of "Sea start", Jim Alba
- The president of branch of space transport of the company
"Boeing", Jury Semenov - the general director and general
Designer RKK "Energy", Per Herbert Kristensen - the president
The companies "Kvarner Maritajm", Stanislav Konjuhov - general
The director and the general designer of KB "Southern", Jury Alekseev
- The general director ON "Southern".
At the press conference which have taken place in hotel "Neva Oriental carpet",
Journalists were suddenly interested by a terrorism problem. Whether will be
The fighting ships for protection of a platform and SKS are allocated? Cannot
Whether pirates to grasp a platform and "Si Lonch the Commander",
To establish on a rocket a nuclear warhead and thus
To blackmail the world community? Jury Semenov has assured
Journalists, that such is hardly possible. At pirates will not suffice
Qualifications.
The platform standing at moorings, suppresses the
tsiklopicheskimi in the sizes. This world's largest
Semiimmersed self-propelled vessel in length of 133 m and width 67 m with
Displacement in 30 thousand t on the move and 50,6 thousand t in
The semishipped status. Speed - 12 sites. Its crew -
68 persons. On a platform there are all conditions for the comfortable
Rest. The captain's cabin is approximately at height of 60 m.
To transport the floating cosmodrome from a mooring on
Depth, under a platform will bring the semiflooded barge,
Will pump out from it water and a platform the bottom crosspieces
Will lean about the barge.
It is interesting, that "the Vyborg ship-repair factory" already on 75 %
Belongs "Kvarneru". But visible traces of investments
Imperceptibly. Both buildings and the equipment the former. In Rostock on
Territories of the former GDR "Kvarner" too has got the ship-repair
Factory "Varnov shipyard" which began to be called "Kvarner Varnov
Shipyard ", and in it for 1993 - 1995 it has been enclosed more than 400
Million dollars. However, 85 % were enclosed by Germans for preservation
Workplaces, and only 15 % - a share of Norwegians. Here so in the West
Occurs aktsionirovanie.
"Si Lonch the Commander" - too the unique vessel, one of
The world's largest type Ro-Ro (beater-it/beater-off). It was
It is constructed in Scotland on shipyard "Kvarner Govan" near to
Glasgow. Its approximate sizes: length of 200 m, width 32 m,
Height of a board of 26 m. Width of a vessel - as much as possible admissible at
Pass through Panama canal. Capacity of its engines 21 000
H.p. and working speed of 19,5 sites. Displacement - nearby
34000 t. The vessel can simultaneously transport to 3 rockets.
Premises for the customer and crew - on 250 persons.
Conditions for habitation to our measures the magnificent. On Kanonersky
Ship-repair factory on him it is established more than 600 t
The equipment.
On all sea posts - Norwegians. The general management -
For Americans. The Russian experts serve the
Systems. At subsidiary jobs Filipinos and Poles are occupied.
They receive more than our experts. Russians for some reason
On this job do not take.
In June "Odysseus" and "Si Lonch the Commander" will go to the base
Port Long Beach in California, which total cost
"To sea start" has managed more than in 500 million dollars.
From here to manufacturers of companions - a hand a tax.
It turns out, that all infrastructure optimum approaches for
Start of the American companions. In California nearby 300 persons
Will serve base port and the company ships "Sea
Start "from which two thirds will be from Russia and Ukraine. In
Seattle 300 persons will work for "Boeing" approximately on
Manufacture and engineering jobs. When "Sea start"
Will earn in full force, the general number of workplaces in the USA,
To Russia and Ukraine, occupied on the project, will exceed 10 000 persons.
The corporation "Sea start" is registered on
Islands Kajmanovyh. So, probably, it is more convenient from the point of view
Minimisation of taxes.
Way from Long Beach to a point of start around equator
The platform with a rocket will pass for 11 days. As much will leave on
Way back to Long Beach. On preparation and start carrying out
Too time is necessary. In base port on a platform will load the new
The rocket will be filled also with capacities with fuel for a rocket. It too
Will demand time. Are that about restrictions on the maximum
The number of the start-up, which number can reach 6 in a year. Certainly,
It is possible to deliver a new rocket and fuel in a start place, but it
Will demand certain completions.
Using force of rotation of the Earth, a rocket "Zenith SLZ",
Adapted for job in sea conditions (high humidity,
Considerable quantity of salts), together with razgonnym block DM-SL
Manufactures RKK "Energy" starting from equator, can deduce
Into a geostationary orbit 5 t a payload (in 3 times
More than at start (Baikonur)). That is it will rise in one
A number with heavy rockets "п я п п п?-5" and "Proton"; "Sea start"
Expects to grasp about "Zenith SLZ" 20 % of the market of starts
Geostationary communication satellites. The first companion, which
Will start in the end of a year, there will be the newest communication satellite "Hughes HS
702 ". This companion which has received the name" Geleksi XI ", becomes
Network part "PanAmSat". For today the company "Sea
Start "has received firm orders for 18 starts from two
The Californian companies: 13 - from "Hughes Spejs end
Kommjunikejshns "and 5 - from" Space Sistems/Loral ". The price of one
Start is a trade secret, but, by words
Managements of "Sea start", will be within 70 - 100 million
Dollars.
According to the president of "Sea start" Mr. Eshbi,
"The deserved reputation of our rockets and the unique contribution of all
Company partners allow "Sea start" to give
Reliable, convenient and rather inexpensive services in start
Commercial companions ".
Valery Rodikov.
//* an information Source: the Aviation market, 15.06.98
//* Reg. Nom. - 1080600001.21-------------------------------------------
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