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- 1S7's Sea Launch floating spaceport remains idle after 12 years●A decade ago, Russian airline group S7 bet on a floating spaceport to break into the commercial launch market. Yet Sea Launch hasn’t launched a rocket in more than 12 years.
Russian airline group S7 acquired the Sea Launch floating spaceport roughly a decade ago, hoping to enter the commercial rocket launch market. The venture has failed to deliver: the platform has not carried out a single launch in more than 12 years, raising questions about the fate of S7's investment and Russia's ambitions in sea-based commercial launches.