Sea Launch, the rocket company that operates from a converted oil rig in the Pacific, has returned to flight.
While Sea Launch has been sidelined, the pair have completely mopped up.
Sea Launch experienced a spectacular rocket failure on the rig in 2007, and was forced to restructure its finances as orders slowed and debts mounted.
Sea Launch had not long returned from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Staff from the Sea Launch company, which organised the launch, direct all missions from a support vessel that sits at a safe distance of about 6.5km uprange of the platform.
"We are very disappointed with the outcome of the launch and offer our sincere regrets to our customer, Intelsat, and their spacecraft provider, Boeing, " Kjell Karlsen, president of Sea Launch AG, said in a statement.
The IMB says pirates off Somalia use "mother ships" that travel far out to sea and launch smaller boats to attack passing vessels, sometimes using rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).
Next year he and his son will launch a similar maritime assault on the Baltic Sea routes that link Helsinki and Stockholm with Germany.
But despite the obvious advantages of moving cargo around the world quickly by sea, FastShip's journey from business plan to launch is proving slow.
The new warning says recent attacks have occurred hundreds of miles off the coast, suggesting that pirates are using more "mother ships" -- a practice of using bigger boats with longer range to launch smaller pirate ships from farther out to sea, according to Pentagon officials.
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An attempt to launch a lifeboat by ferry crews after the man was spotted in the sea had to be abandoned because of the weather conditions.
The US Navy has expanded the role of its destroyers and the Arleigh Burke-class of vessels is designed to launch simultaneous attacks against targets on land, in the air, at sea and below it.
The SeaWinds satellite, managed by NASA for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, carries a scatterometer instrument that has measured those sea winds via microwaves bounced off the ocean's surface since the satellite's launch in June.
The Bush Administration has a sluggish, low-key missile defense effort under way: a limited ground-based system deployed in Alaska and California, which won't be much of a deterrent in today's world, and a still underdeveloped sea-based system modeled on the U.S. Navy's Aegis vertical launch system.
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