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>>11142640
>is there no hope for them to continue making Zenit rockets? What happened with Sea Launch?

Sea Launch still currently ‘exists’. It was originally an international partnership between a bunch of different aerospace companies including Boeing (US), Energia (Russia) and Yuzhnoye (Ukraine); with the Zenit rocket being built using both Ukrainian and Russian parts. Obviously, this partnership was scuppered in 2014 by the Russian invasion of Crimea and Sea Launch was forced to shutdown operations and mothball it’s signature fleet. A Russian airline: S7 Airlines, purchased the defunct Sea Launch back in 2016 under the guise of restarting operations, but nothing has come of this so far. Yuzhnoye/Ukraine are currently developing a new rocket the Cyclone 4M, to launch from Nova Scotia in Canada and Russia’s upcoming Soyuz-5 rocket is essentially a nativised Zenit, designed to use only Russian parts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irtysh_(rocket)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone-4M