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RCC Progress JSC is a Russian space industry enterprise for the development, production and operation of middle-class launch vehicles. Raketas carriers created at the enterprise are used to launch manned and transport ships to the International Space Station, as well as launches of foreign payloads.

The State Research and Production Rocket and Space Center "TsSKB-Progress" is the leading Russian enterprise for the development, production and operation of medium-class launch vehicles and automatic spacecraft for remote sensing of the Earth and scientific purposes. In total, more than 1,740 launch vehicles and 980 spacecraft developed by TsSKB-Progress were launched.

Russian enterprise for the development, production and operation of manned and transport spacecraft, Earth remote sensing devices. RCC Progress JSC occupies a leading position in the development of production and operation of middle-class launch vehicles among both Russian and foreign enterprises. More than 12 modifications of medium-class launch vehicles and 29 types of spacecraft for various purposes have been developed and commissioned at RCC Progress JSC.

At the beginning of 2018, RCC Progress JSC carried out more than 1880 launches of launch vehicles, put into orbit about 1000 spacecraft of its own production. RCC Progress JSC is the only enterprise in the world that launches launch vehicles from four cosmodromes: Baikonur, Plesetsk, the Guiana Space Center and the first Vostochny civil cosmodrome in Russia.

History

2023: Recovery of 2.7 billion rubles in favor of Roscosmos for a faulty satellite

The Moscow Arbitration Court recovered 2.7 billion rubles from the Progress rocket and space center in favor of Roscosmos as compensation for losses. This was reported on February 15, 2023 by the Kommersant newspaper with reference to materials in the court's electronic file cabinet.

The reason for the proceedings was the spacecraft "Resource-P" No. 2, created by the Samara enterprise. The satellite was supposed to last five years, but after three years the computer system and the onboard equipment of the command and measurement system failed on it.

Sputnik "Resource-P" No. 2 served only three years

In December 2017, a malfunction was recorded on the device - the absence of a signal from the board when performing the mode of reproducing target information by high-speed radio equipment, after which the state corporation suspended the use of the satellite.

Roscosmos stated that Progress did not fulfill the obligations stipulated by the agreement, and demanded compensation for damage of 4.7 billion rubles. In response, the Samara enterprise provided evidence that in three years the satellite collected a volume of information calculated for five years. As a result, the court refused the state corporation to satisfy the claim. The decision was challenged.

In mid-February 2023, the arbitration partially satisfied the requirements of Roscosmos, deciding to recover 2.7 billion rubles from the rocket and space center in favor of the state corporation and a state duty of 118 thousand rubles.

"Resource-P" is a series of domestic civil spacecraft designed for remote sensing of the Earth. The obtained data are used to create and edit maps, control the environment, identify places of potential occurrence of minerals and even determine crop maturity, cleanliness of reservoirs, etc.^[1]

2022: Drone demonstration to adjust artillery fire

In mid-August 2022, the Progress Rocket and Space Center (a subsidiary of Roscosmos based in Samara) presented an unmanned aerial vehicle designed to adjust artillery fire. Read more here.

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