LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 1 ??“ An international consortium led by Boeing and involving major Ukrainian and Russian space companies signed a contract for a satellite launch from a site in Kazakhstan, Sea Launch, the consortium, reported.

Sea Launch, known for 16 successful satellite launches from a floating platform in the Pasific Ocean, said the latest contract with PanAmSat anticipates the launch from Baikonur, a land cosmodromme, in 2007.