Launch service provider
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A Launch Service Provider (LSP) is a type of company which specialises in launching spacecraft. It is responsible for the ordering, conversion, or construction of the carrier rocket, assembly and stacking, payload integration, and ultimately conducting the launch itself. Some of these tasks may be delegated or sub-contracted to other companies, for example United Launch Alliance subcontracts the production of GEM solid rocket motors for its Atlas V, Delta II and Delta IV rockets to Alliant Techsystems. With some rockets, the military, defence forces, or another government organisation, of the country in which it is manufactured, may conduct the launch in place of an LSP. The LSP is not necessarily the same company that build the rocket.
[edit] List of active Launch Service Providers
- Antrix Corporation (PSLV/GSLV)
- Arianespace (Ariane 5/Vega)
- COSMOS International (Kosmos-3M)
- Eurockot (Rockot)
- Great Wall Industrial Corporation (Long March)
- International Launch Services (Proton-M)
- ISC Kosmotras (Dnepr)
- Land Launch (Zenit-2SLB/Zenit-3SLB)
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (H-IIA)
- Orbital Sciences Corporation (Minotaur/Pegasus/Taurus)
- Sea Launch (Zenit-3SL)
- SpaceX (Falcon 1/Falcon 9)
- Starsem (Soyuz-FG/Soyuz-2)
- United Launch Alliance (Atlas V/Delta II/Delta IV)
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