20 Jul 2015 10:51

China shows interest in buying Sea Launch floating spaceport - website

MOSCOW. July 20 (Interfax-AVN) - Sea Launch AG operator launching satellites from the floating spaceport with Zenit-SL rockets is in talks with the Chinese government on selling the Sea Launch command ship and launch platform, says a report published on the specialized website www.spacenews.com with the reference to 'industry officials'.

"A sale to China would need to traverse a minefield of regulatory and political issues in Russia, China and the United States," including the regime of control over transfer of missile technologies, the report said.

A source in the Russian rocket and space industry told Interfax-AVN, "the deal would be impossible without settling the legal dispute with Boeing."