• ILS is a long standing, successful U.S.-Russian joint venture with exclusive rights to the worldwide sale of commercial Proton launch services.
  • Since its inception in 1995, ILS has signed contracts for more than 100 launches valued at over eight billion dollars.
  • Headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area, the ILS team is comprised of around 60 professionals dedicated to performance, excellence and customer satisfaction.
  • ILS' first commercial Proton launch lifted off on April 6, 1996, ushering in a new era for commercial space transportation.
  • ILS partner, Khrunichev State Research and Production Center, has been a major Russian industrial power for 90 years and remains a pillar in Russian space industry infrastructure.
  • Following its first launch in 1965, Proton has launched more than 325 times.
  • Proton and spacecraft processing and launches take place at state-of-the-art facilities at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.


International Launch Services is the U.S.-Russian joint venture with exclusive rights for worldwide commercial sales and mission management of satellite launches on Russia's premier vehicle, the Proton.

 

ILS is an American company, headquartered in McLean, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C. The joint venture partners are Space Transport Inc., a privately held corporation based in the British Virgin Islands, and Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center and RSC Energia of Moscow. The Proton vehicle launches both commercial ILS missions and Russian government payloads from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is operated by the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) under lease from the Republic of Kazakhstan.

 

We are a complete launch service organization, committed to nurturing partnerships with our customers, not just marketing and fulfilling launch contracts. We're at the customer's side from contract signing through mission completion.

 

With ILS customers get a single source of comprehensive knowledge, from business management to technical interface to licensing support. We have a staff of about 50 people with decades of combined expertise in the international launch and satellite business. The International Launch Services team has accumulated an extensive experience base. Over our 13 years of existence, we have launched most commercial satellite platforms and worked with all major satellite operators. This experience helps us keep integration times and launch campaigns short and maintain a steady launch pace. It's the kind of professionalism that has helped International Launch Services become the provider of choice for customers worldwide.

 

Our current backlog is 21 Proton missions through 2013.