Pending a meeting of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB), the launch provider is anticipating its return to flight in October, Sea Launch said April 3. The mission would place the Thuraya-3 satellite into orbit for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co.

The company anticipates the FROB’s conclusion by June, with corrective implementation, repairs to the Odyssey launch platform and recertification operations expected for completion in September. The January failure of a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket destroyed SES New Skies’ NSS-8 satellite.

Sea Launch has lost the contract to launch Hughes Network Systems’ Spaceway-3 communications satellite, which had been planned for July. Other customers under contract are DirecTV, Intelsat and EchoStar Communications Corp.