Land Launch
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Land Launch is a subsidiary of Sea Launch, which conducts commercial launches of Zenit rockets from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It operates two-stage Zenit-2SLB, and three stage Zenit-3SLB rockets.
The first launch was conducted on 28 April 2008 at 05:00 GMT, when a Zenit-3SLB was used to place AMOS-3 (AMOS-60) into a geosynchronous orbit.
Land Launch missions differ from Sea Launch missions in that the modernised Zenit-3SLB is used, as opposed to the Zenit-3SL, a smaller and hence lighter payload fairing is used, and the rocket inserts the payload directly into a geosynchronous orbit, rather than leaving it in a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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