Ukraine is ready to continue supplying Zenit missiles for intl project Sea Launch - head of Ukraine's State Space Agency
KYIV/MOSCOW. June 24 (Interfax) - Ukraine has no plans to suspend the supply of Zenit-3SL launch vehicles for the international project for commercial launches of foreign communications satellites from the sea cosmodrome Sea Launch in the Pacific Ocean, Yuriy Alekseyev, the head of the Ukrainian State Space Agency, told Interfax.
"Ukraine has supplied and is ready to supply everything needed for the Sea Launch," Alekseyev said, commenting on the media reports stating that the project Sea Launch may be postponed until 2016 due to a shortage of Zenit launch vehicles manufactured by the Ukrainian plant Yuzhmash (Dnepropetrovsk).
A source in the Russian aerospace industry told Interfax-AVN no decisions have yet been made on the future of the Sea Launch.
"There are no changes in the status of the program," the source said.