According to national space agency sources, in 2004 Ukrainian carrier rockets accounted for 13 percent of the international market of space launches.
Besides, Ukraine continued consolidating its footing on the global market of satellites, in particular, through increasing manufacture of spacecraft and getting increasingly involved in international space projects.
Ukraine is actively participating in studies relating to the International Space Station, in the Galileo project, in the GEOSS program.
In cooperation with America's NASA the Ukrainian enterprises has embarked on drafting long-term interplanetary missions, in particular, to the Moon.
Implementation of the Ukrainian-Brazilian project “Cyclone-4” on the Brazilian space centre “Alcantara” will be Ukraine's next important step toward entering new segments of the international market of space service, upholding further development of the Ukrainian image as the space state and its national economy.
As leading foreign experts believe, the project “Sea Launch” is among the world's most technically advances. The project relies on Ukrainian “Zenith-3SL” boosters, which are launched from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean to place payloads on orbits.
In addition to Zenith-3SL boosters, Ukraine makes Zenith-2, Cyclone-2, Cyclone-3, Dnepr carrier rockets.
During the years of the Ukrainian independence there were 85 launches of the Ukrainian made boosters, with the help of which 184 satellites of different functioning were triggered.