LONG BEACH, Calif.-Sea Launch said it successfully completed its return to flight/systems readiness review, which was part of an investigation conducted by the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board following a March 12 launch that failed to place an ICO F-1 communications satellite into orbit.
“Based on the investigation and subsequent report, we are completely confident the root cause was clearly identified,” said Jim Maser, chair of the board and chief engineer for Sea Launch. “We also identified corrective actions that address not only the ground software logic error, but also all associated process weaknesses that could have allowed such an error to go undetected.”
Preparations for another launch in late July are under way, the company said.
