Category:IMO 8753196
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Summary
[edit]- IMO Number: 8753196
- MMSI Number: 636010468
- Callsign: ELTA7
- Shipyard: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Oppama Shipyard, Yokosuka, Japan
- Built: 1982
- Launched: March 1983
- Ship type: Satellite launch platform (previously, drilling platform)
- Length: 132.9 metres (436 ft)
- Beam: 67 metres (220 ft)
- Empty draft displacement: 27,000 metric tonnes (30,000 short tons)
- Submerged draft displacement: 45,900 metric tonnes (50,600 short tons)
- Crew: 68
- Flag: Monrovia, Liberia
- Home port: Long Beach, California
History
[edit]- 1982: Built at Sumitomo Heavy Industries Oppama Shipyard, Yokosuka, Japan.
- 1982: Named Ocean Ranger II during construction, renamed Ocean Odyssey.
- 1983: Launch as a North Sea drilling platform.
- 1988: Suffered well blowout, causing damage to vessel. Berthed at Dundee, Scotland.
- 1993: Bought by Kværner for Boeing and the Sea Launch consortium, renamed L/P Odyssey.
- 1995-1997: Refit into satellite launch platform.
- 1999: First satellite launch.
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