MOSCOW, Aug. 15 - The Energia Corporation is planning over five launches of Zenit-3SL rockets from a floating platform in the Pacific in the coming year, Energia President Vitaly Lopota told Interfax-AVN on Monday.

"There will be one Pacific launch in 2011 and four in 2012. There will be five or more annual launches from the sea-based spaceport in the future," he said.

An aerospace industry source told Interfax-AVN earlier that the first Zenit-3SL launch from the Pacific platform after the two-year pause would take place from September 22 to 25, 2011.