inc. type private industry aerospace and defense founded 1995 headquarters reston virginia usa key people phil slack president products proton rocket number of employees 60 website www.ilslaunch.com international launch services ils is an american russian joint venture with exclusive rights to the worldwide sale of commercial proton rocket launch services from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan . contents 1 ownership 2 proton launches 3 atlas launches 4 references 5 external links ownership edit ils was formed in 1995 as a private spaceflight partnership between lockheed martin lm khrunichev and energia . ils initially co marketed non military launches on both the u.s. atlas and the russian proton expendable launch vehicles . with the atlas v launch of the ses 1kr satellite on april 20 2006 ils had made 100 launches 97 of which were successful . 1 in september 2006 lockheed martin announced its intention to sell its ownership interests in lockheed khrunichev energia international inc. lkei and ils international launch services inc. ils to space transport inc. 2 space transport inc. was formed specifically for this transaction by mario lem me who has been a consultant to ils since its inception and a board member for more than three years . 3 the transaction between lockheed martin and space transport inc. completed in october 2006 . lockheed martin has retained all rights related to marketing the commercial atlas vehicle and is continuing to offer atlas launch services to the worldwide commercial market through its subsidiary lockheed martin commercial launch services inc. lmcls . ils no longer affiliated with lockheed martin continued to market the proton launch vehicles to commercial clients . terms of the transaction were not disclosed . 4 all atlas v launches are now managed by united launch alliance a joint venture between lockheed martin and boeing ids defense space & security launch services formed in december 2006 with all commercial atlas v launches sub contracted for ula by lmcls . in october 2006 krunichev spokesman said that the firm was ready to buy the stake being sold by lockheed martin . russian space agency spokesman said that despite that lockheed is selling its stake to space transport khrunichev may eventually end up owning it . he expressed the desire of the russian side to increase its presence in the joint venture . space transport inc registered in the british virgin islands and headquartered in moscow denied that it would be selling the stake . 5 in may 2008 khrunichev state research and production space center a russian company acquired all of space transport s interest and is now the majority shareholder in ils . ils will remain a u.s. company and headquarters are currently in reston virginia near washington d.c. where approximately 60 employees are based . 6 proton launches edit main articles proton rocket and list of proton launches see also space launch market competition in may 2008 ils had a backlog of 22 orders totaling approximately 2 billion and had flown 45 commercial proton missions since 1996 . 6 by june 2009 the backlog had grown to 24 firm missions . the 50th ils proton launch took place in early 2009 . 7 in january 2014 ils had an order book of 14 launches worth more than 1 billion with up to 6 launches planned for 2014 . most proton payloads are too massive to launch with the less powerful falcon 9 rocket and there were no spare ariane 5 launch opportunities when so proton customers can not easily switch to other launchers . 8 atlas launches edit this section needs expansion . you can help by adding to it . september 2009 after october 2006 ils focused solely on the proton launch vehicle so no longer offered atlas launches . 9 the first atlas launch was the atlas iias intelsat 704 launch on 10 january 1995 and the last was the atlas v astra 1kr launch on 20 april 2006 . 10 references edit atlas 5 rocket launches tv broadcasting craft for europe . spaceflight now . lockheed martin announces sale of its interests in international launch services and lkei . lockheed martin . ils ownership changes ; frank mckenna appointed president . ils . lockheed martin completes sale of international launch services . lockheed martin . russian space center eyes lockheed stakes . moscow times . a b khrunichev purchases majority interest in international launch services . press release . ils . 29 may 2008 . retrieved 30 may 2008 . ils announces 9 new proton missions . ils . june 15 2009 . stephen clark 19 january 2014 . officials hope 2014 is a comeback year for proton . spaceflight now . retrieved 20 january 2014 . ils legacy . ils . retrieved 2 february 2014 . atlas launch archives . ils . retrieved 2 february 2014 . external links edit ils website proton rocket s commercial marketer begins new era spaceflight now november 8 2006 v t e atlas rockets main articles atlas family sm 65 atlas rockets prototypes mx 774 atlas a atlas b atlas c missiles atlas d atlas e atlas f launch systems alphabetical atlas b atlas d atlas e f atlas g atlas h upper stages atlas able atlas agena atlas centaur numerical atlas i atlas ii atlas iii atlas v other atlas lv 3b atlas slv 3 gx launch sites cape canaveral lc 11 lc 12 lc 13 lc 14 s lc 36 slc 41 vandenberg lc 576 slc 3 slc 4 bases altus dyess fairchild forbes francis e. warren lincoln offutt plattsburgh schilling walker components boosters aj 60a castor 4a ma first stages common core booster upper stages able agena altair burner centaur iabs msd ois pts sgs star svs trident engines aj 10 b 8048 b 8081 b 8096 lr 89 lr 105 r 4d rd 180 rl10 rs 56 corporations manufacturers rocket convair general dynamics martin marietta lockheed martin engines aerojet npo energomash pratt & whitney rocketdyne thiokol lsps international launch services united launch alliance launches 1957 1959 1960 1969 1970 1979 1980 1989 1990 1999 2000 2009 2010 2019 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title international launch services & oldid 690725353 categories commercial launch service providerscompanies based in virginiaspace industry companies of russiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersvague or ambiguous time from december 2014articles to be expanded from september 2009all articles to be expandedarticles using small message boxes navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa olfran aisbahasa indonesia portugu srom n suomi edit links this page was last modified on 15 november 2015 at 07 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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