Pending a meeting this week in Ukraine of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB), and based on company estimates, the launch provider is anticipating its return to flight in October, Sea Launch reported April 3.

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 Jan. 30 catastrophic failure of a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle resulted in the loss of SES New Skies’ NSS-8 satellite.

Sea Launch said its partners – Boeing, RSC Energia, SDO Yuzhnoye/PO Yuzhmash and Aker ASA – “remain fully committed to working together to resolve this anomaly and recover from its consequences.”

Last month, Sea Launch lost the contract to launch Hughes Network Systems’ Spaceway-3 communications satellite, which had been planned for lofting in July. Other customers under contract at the time were Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co., DirecTV, PanAmSat Corp. and EchoStar Communications Corp. Thuraya’s CEO, Yousuf Al Sayed, then expressed his “hope [that] we can launch Thuraya-3 before October,” pending the FROB’s results.