A self-propelled semi-submersible, catamaran-type, Launch Platform (LP) Odyssey is a floating rocket launch system. The platform is based on an off-shore oil drilling rig and was built at Rosenberg shipyard (Stavanger, Norway). It is equipped with a launch pad, a launch vehicle erector, systems for filling with propellant components, and other systems that support the integrated launch vehicle pre-launch processing and launch. The installation of the rocket systems, launching and support equipment was performed at the Kvaerner-Vyborg shipyard at Vyborg (Russia).

The platform has a hangar, inside which a launch vehicle Zenit-3SL integrated with the payload is transported to the launch site. The hangar has an air conditioning system which operates throughout the entire transit period. There is a special transporter/erector to roll the launch vehicle out of the hangar and erect it on the launch pad. There are rooms equipped for propellant component storage (kerosene and liquid oxygen). A remotely-controlled rocket fuelling system and an automatic launch system allow to conduct pre-launch operations without any persons present on board the platform.

LP can accommodate 68 persons of crew and launch support personnel.The accommodations include living quarters, a canteen, and an ambulance room.

The home port of the launch platform is Long Beach port located in south-western US (California).

The vessel arrived from Europe to the Home Port under its own power by way of Gibraltar, Suez channel and Singapore.

Rocket segment systems on the launch platform:

• A suite of support equipment and systems for pre-launch processing and launch, including:
  
  • Erector,
  • launch pad,
  • cable tower,
  • oxidizer and fuel filling systems,
  • compressed gas supply system,
  • system for supplying nitrogen, etc.,
  • thermostatting system,
• complex of automated control systems for processing operations
• launch measurement complex