Kjell Karlsen President Sea Launch July 15, 2011 Aerospace & - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Kjell Karlsen President Sea Launch July 15, 2011

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• What Is Sea Launch?
• Customers We Serve
• The Concept
• SL History
• SL Vessel Modifications (3:20

video)

• Restructuring Process
• Bridging Cultural Differences
• Launch Facilities, Assets and

Rocket Segment

• Operations at Sea Launch

Home Port (5:48 video)

• Launch Campaign
• Slow-motion launch (2:00

video)

• SL Animation (2:03 video)
• Sea Launch Future

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Agenda

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 Provider of Heavy-lift Commercial Space Launch Services  Launch from a floating platform on the Equator  Based on Zenit-3SL launch system  Originally formed in 1995 as an International JV Partnership  Performed 30 Launches to date, operational for 10 years  Competes in Global Commercial Launch Services Market

What is Sea Launch?

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Customers We Serve

Launched and Firm Contracts

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What We Do

Heavy-Lift Commercial Launch Services

Sea Launch Home Port Long Beach, California The Concept

• Launch commercial

satellites to orbit from a platform at sea

• Directly on the Equator
• Use existing flight-

proven Zenit-3SL launch system suitable for automated launch

• perations
• All-inclination/orbit

launch capability

• High Performance
• Excellent Value
• Facilities and amenities
• f a U.S. launch site

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Sea Launch History

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Summer 1993 Exploratory discussions occur Spring 1994 Initial Sea Launch studies begin April 1995 Sea Launch is formed December 1995 Hughes signs first order. Ship construction commences July 1996 Hughes commits to three more launches. Space Systems/Loral orders five satellite launches August 8, 1996 Groundbreaking held for Home Port in Long Beach, California December 1996 Command ship completed and launched from Kvaerner shipyard in Scotland May 1997 Launch platform sails from Norway to Russia September 1997 Sea Launch Commander christened June 1998 Sea Launch Commander and The Odyssey leaves Russia for Long Beach, carrying the first two Sea Launch vehicles March 1999 First launch - Demonstration Payload March 2009 Sea Launch celebrates 10 years of launch operations April 2009 Sea Launch completes its 30th launch mission June 2009 Sea Launch Company L.L.C. filed voluntary petitions to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States October 2010 Sea Launch AG emerges from Chapter 11 September 2011 Return to Launch Operations

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 Sea Launch filed for Chapter-11

restructuring in 2009 for a number of reasons

 16 month restructuring effort

completed in 2010

 Energia Overseas Limited is 95 % owner

• f Sea Launch

 Through injection of $ 155 M in

equity and access to a $ 200 M line

• f credit

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Restructuring Process

Original Ownership Structure of Sea Launch

 Sea Launch AG is incorporated in Bern, Switzerland  Operation facilities remain in Long Beach, California  Backlog of nine missions valued in excess of $ 1 B

SDO Yuzhnoye

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RSC Energia is a public corporation, fiscally transparent, and is 38% owned by the government of the Russian Federation

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Leading Russian Federation Space Integrator involved in every major Russian space effort

Restructuring Process

RSC Energia Owner & Rocket Segment Prime Contractor

9 OAO Rocket and Space Corporation Energia S.P. Korolev

Space Vehicles Earth & Communications Satellites Orbital Stations Launch Vehicles Space Transfer Vehicles Interplanetary Probes Block-DM for Sea Launch, Land Launch and Proton launch vehicles

• Sea Launch brings together world-class aerospace and marine

technologies from four nations

• Challenges
• Language
• Business Practices
• Communication

Bridging Cultural Differences

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Facilities & Assets

Marine Segment

• Launch vehicle checkout
• Launch vehicle fueling
• Rocket integration and test
• Mission control
• Launch team accommodations
• Range support and helo operations
• Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket
• Sea Launch Block DM upper

stage

• Payload accommodations

Rocket Segment

YUZHMASH

• Systems integration
• Rocket segment

processing

• Payload processing and

encapsulation

• Pier and marine

provisioning

• Support engineering
• Logistics support
• Rocket segment storage

Home Port Segment

• Launch complex
• Launch vehicle transit

Launch Platform “Odyssey” Sea Launch “Commander”

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Sea Launch in the United States

• First high technology tenant on

former Navy Base, Port of Long Beach, 1996

• Operations Facilities for 190

permanent and 400 temporary personnel with no U.S. taxpayer dollars involved

• 83 full-time personnel
• Surge of Russian & Ukrainian

personnel during launch

• Auburn WA – up to 130 Boeing

personnel

• Mission Design
• Payload Fairing Manufacturing

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 Zenit-2S represented a

robust, clean-sheet LV in mid 80’s

 Advanced Soviet design (no

solids, horizontal processing, environmentally friendly fuels, performance, fast recycle times)

 Sea Launch chose the Zenit

2S booster as its state of the art design and automated launch capability results in minimal required launch personnel, lending itself to launching from a remote,

• cean-based launch site

Unique Operational Characteristics

Why the Zenit-2S Booster lends itself well to Sea Launch

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Aerospace & Defense Forum Spacecraft arrival at Home Port (about 45 days before launch) Payload Unit (PLU) transfer to Assembly Command Ship (ACS) (24 days before launch) Integrated Launch Vehicle (ILV) Transfer to Launch Platform (LP) (18 days before launch) Integrated Systems Test (17 days before launch) LP to Transit Launch Site (Departs 15 days before launch) ACS Transit to Launch Site (Departs 12 days before launch) Launch Operations (Begins 3 days before launch) Launch (day 0) PLU to Block-DM-SL Mate (19 days before launch) 14

Launch Campaign

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Launch Campaign

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Launch Campaign

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LP and A LP and ACS in t CS in transit ansit to to Launc Launch h Site Site

Launch Campaign

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Sea Launch-Launch Site

On the Equator

• No range restrictions
• Weather and waves are benign
• Weather Buoy on Station
• Ideal for Geosynchronous satellites

Jarvis Island 20 N

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

10 N 160 W

LINE ISLANDS

150 W 140 W

Launch Site N 154 W

Kiritimati (Christmas) Tabuaeran Palmyra Atoll

North Pacific Ocean

Malden Island Johnston Atoll Kingman Reef Teraina

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Upon Arrival at Launch Site

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performance

The IL he ILV V is is rolled

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the hangar and er he hangar and erected ected

Launch Campaign

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The Launc he Launch h Pla Platf tfor

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Launch Campaign

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Lift-off!!

Launch Campaign

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Return To Operations

 Spacecraft Characteristics  EADS Astrium Eurostar-3000 bus  4,600 kilograms  Orbital slot - 7 degrees East Longitude  View launch live at www.sea-launch.com!  Represents Sea Launch’s first launch

in almost 2 ½ years

 31st Mission  ATLANTIC BIRD-7™ serving the

digital video broadcasting market in the Middle East

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SL # 31 Launch Hardware Arrives

July 14, 2011

Aerospace & Defense Forum 3Q 2011 – Resumption

• f Launch Operations

AtlanticBird-7

Launch of Zenit-3SLB from Baikonur

Intelsat-18

Execute Business Plan

• Launch Reliably
• Add Backlog

Launch Platform Dry Dock 5 Launches Per Year by 2013

Sea Launch Future is Bright

Looking Ahead

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Achieving Effective International Cooperation

• Sea Launch has been on the forefront of international space cooperation

since the early 1990’s

• Lessons learned include
• Ownership structure
• Complexity of multi-company ventures should not be under

estimated

• Capital structure
• Proper capital structure is essential
• Trust
• Developing trust among shifting stakeholders has to be

constantly worked on

• Synergy
• Pull in partners, suppliers and people that represent best in

their field

• Law
• Licensing

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