According to the corrected schedule, the launching of the rocket carrier was put off until July, Press Secretary of the Pivdenne Design Bureau (Dnipropetrovsk) Yuri Oleksienko told Interfax-Ukrainian.

He made it clear that there are three Zenith rocket carriers at the base port of Sea Launch. Consortium specialists met the stipulated terms to exclude and prevent mistakes in the algorithm of earth automated control system of pre-start preparation of the rocket carrier, which caused an unsuccessful launch on March 12.

Until now, no information is disclosed on the customer of the launch or the satellite itself.

The Sea Launch consortium is formed by Boeing (40%), Rocket Space Complex Energia (25%), Ukrainian Pivdenne Design Bureau and Industrial Association Pivdenmash (15%), and Norvegian Kvaerner (20%). Now, the consortium has got 18 orders for launching satellites into the orbit.

The first demo launch Zenith-3SL with model satellite onboard from the sea cosmodrome was carried out March 27, 1999, the second one - with a space apparatus for direct TV broadcast DirecTV-1IR - on October 10, 1999.

The ICO F-1 Mobile Communication satellite was unsuccessfully launched on March 12 due to a mistake in the control algorithm of earth automated system of pre-start preparation of the rocket carrier.

The Sea Launch schedule envisages four launches from the sea platform in 2000.