Eurockot Launch Service
Eurockot Launch Services GmbH provides commercial launch services with the Rockot launch system to operators of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Formed in 1995, the company is located in Bremen, Germany and is owned by EADS Astrium which holds 51 percent and by Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, Moscow, Russia which holds 49 percent. Eurockot serves an international market and operates from state-of-the-art dedicated launch facilities in Plesetsk Cosmodrome, northern Russia.
Rockot is a fully operational system; all the major launch services capabilities offered by Eurockot have now been demonstrated in previous Eurockot missions. This includes all the aspects of the incoming transportation logistics of the spacecraft importation, launch campaigns with sophisticated spacecraft, different types of payload adapters and dispensers with separation systems from Russia and the west, different types of trajectories such as polar and sun-synchronous orbits, multiple re-start capability of the upper stage for plane changes and orbit raising, injection of spacecraft into different orbits in one mission and more.
Contact Details
Executives
CEO
Matthias Oehm
Technical Director
York Viertel
Head Finance and Controlling
Andreas Sabelhaus