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S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
Russian spacecraft manufacturer
NPO Lavochkin
NPO Lavochkin (, OKB-301, also called Lavochkin Research and Production Association or shortly Lavochkin Association, LA) is a Russian aerospace company. It is a major player in the Russian space program, being the developer and manufacturer of the Fregat upper stage, as well as interplanetary probes such as Fobos-Grunt. As of 2015, it was headed by Sergei Lemeshevskii. On 10 August 2017 the Lavochkin Association's Board of Directors appointed Vladimir Kolmykov Director General of the enterprise.
Intersputnik
The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications, commonly known as Intersputnik, is an international satellite communications services organization founded on 15 November 1971, in Moscow by the Soviet Union along with a group of seven formerly socialist states (Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Mongolia) and Cuba.
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Moscow-based producer of spacecraft and space-launch systems
NPO Energomash
aerospace company in USSR and Russia
Russian Space Research Institute
institute for space exploration of the Russian Academy of Sciences
International Cospas-Sarsat Programme
international satellite-aided search and rescue initiative
Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau
company
NPP Zvezda
aerospace company in Tomilino, Moscow Region, Russia
Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology
facility in Moscow, Russia
Gonets
Gonets (Russian Гонец, for Messenger) is a Russian civilian low Earth orbit communications satellite system. It consists of a number of satellites, derived from Strela military communications satellites. The first two satellites, which were used to test and validate the system, were launched by a Tsyklon-3 launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 13 July 1992, and were designated Gonets-D. The first operational satellites, designated Gonets-D1, were launched on 19 February 1996. After launch, the first three satellites were given military Kosmos designations, a practice which was not con
Production Corporation Polyot
Russian aerospace engineering company
TsNIIMash
thumbnail|Checkpoint NII-88 (TsNIIMash) on Pioneer Street, in 2011 TsNIIMash () is a Russian rocket and spacecraft scientific center, dealing with all phases of development from conceptual design to flight test. The Institute is the main analytical center of Roskosmos in the field of system-wide studies of the problems of the development of Russia's RKT with a wide range of tasks: from conceptual design and long-term prospects for the development of rocket and space technology to specific technological developments and their conversion in the interests of other industries. It was established i
Khartron
JSC "Khartron" (Hartron) (Ukrainian: Хартрон, formerly NPO "Electropribor", Russian: НПО "Электроприбор", meaning Scientific Production Association "Electrical device"; originally known as NII-692 or OKB-692 design bureau; afterwards known as KB electropriborostroeniya before being named NPO Electropribor) is one of the leading design engineering bureaus in Ukraine, which develops and produces spacecraft and missile control systems.
Chemical Automatics Design Bureau
Russian Design Bureau
Scientific Production Association
industrial business group, conglomerate in the fortmer Soviet Union
NPO Molniya
Russian scientific and production enterprise
Institute of Medicobiological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences
research institute in Moscow, Russia
Arsenal Design Bureau
subsidiary of Roscosmos