Sea Launch’s Failure Review Oversight Board issued its...
Sea Launch’s Failure Review Oversight Board issued its final summary report on the failed Jan. 31 launch attempt of the Intelsat 27 satellite. The board concluded that the failure “was isolated to the Zenit 3SL first stage hydraulic power supply…
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unit with no other contributors identified,” Sea Launch said in a news release Monday (http://bit.ly/VC6feh). The launch failed about 40 seconds after liftoff over the Pacific Ocean (CD Feb 4 p15). “Corrective actions are expected to be complete on the existing flight units in the June/July timeframe and do not involve any design changes to the flight hardware,” said the report. It said the board cleared the Zenit 3SL for return to flight pending the closure of the corrective actions, “which they affirmed will preclude a similar failure in the future."