JSC Russian Space Systems

JSC "Russian Space Systems" (RKS) is a member of the United Rocket and Space Corporation (ORKK) and specializes in the development, manufacture, and operation of space information systems. The main areas of activity are the creation, development and targeted use of the GLONASS global navigation satellite system, space search and rescue systems, hydrometeorological support, radio engineering support for scientific research of outer space, ground-based stations for receiving and processing Earth remote sensing information.

OJSC "Russian Space Systems" was organized by transformation from the federal state unitary enterprise "Russian Research Institute of Space Instrumentation." FSUE RNII KP is the parent organization of the Russian Federation for the GLONASS system, as well as many other systems.

Organizational structure

Russian Space Systems combines key enterprises of space instrumentation and information systems in Russia:

• JSC Research Institute of Precision Instruments
• JSC "Research Institute of Physical Measurements"
• JSC "Scientific and Production Association of Measuring Equipment"
• JSC Research Institute of Space Instrumentation
• Orion Research and Production Organization OJSC
• OJSC "Special Design Bureau of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute"

Main directions and results of activities

JSC "Russian Space Systems" is an enterprise of the rocket and space industry specializing in the development, manufacture, author's support and operation of space information systems.

• creation, development and targeted use of the global navigation system; GLONASS
• space systems for search and rescue, geodesy, hydrometeorological support, communication and relay, remote sensing of planets and other space objects, radio engineering support for scientific research of outer space;
• onboard instruments and complexes of special and civilian spacecraft;
• ground-based stations for receiving and processing Earth remote sensing information, automated control systems for spacecraft, launch vehicles and acceleration units;
• polygon measuring complexes;
• automated systems for control, measurement, monitoring of resources and facilities.

Satellite navigation

Without the effective use of satellite navigation in the modern world, it is difficult to imagine the work of many sectors of the economy, including aviation, shipping and road transport. These are important, but far from the only areas where it can be applied. Today, satellite navigation serves as a key element in the implementation of a number of technical, humanitarian and commercial projects.

Holding "Russian Space Systems" as a parent organization is working on the creation, development and targeted use of a satellite global navigation system (GLONASS), including functional additions, consumer equipment and a ground control complex. The result of this work is its effective improvement and consistent technological development.

Now the space grouping of the system has been fully restored and is operating normally. For the first time, devices appeared in it that make up the so-called orbital reserve.

If before 2008 the global satellite navigation system was represented exclusively by the space complex - the orbital grouping and ground control systems - now it includes all components, which allows for its coordinated and balanced development. In particular, the main elements of the differential correction and monitoring system (SDKM) were deployed - the measurement collection complex, the SDKM center, the information delivery complex to consumers, as well as two of the three devices of the Luch relay system in geostationary orbit. Satellites transmit corrections to measurements made on GLONASS signals, increasing the accuracy of determinations.

The federal target program "Maintenance, development and use of the GLONASS system" for 2012-2020. in addition to the development of the space segment and the change in the generation of satellites, it involves the completion of the modernization of the ground control complex, the expansion of the network of measuring stations in Russia and abroad, as well as the further development of SDKM technologies and means.

The new navigation radio signals emitted by the next generation GLONASS-K satellites, together with the deployment of SDKM, will improve the quality of navigation services and create the basis for building regional high-precision navigation systems. With their help, consumers will be able to solve navigation problems with centimeter accuracy both in Russia and in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Remote sensing of the Earth

One of the significant signs of a highly developed information society is modern technologies and services for observing the Earth from space. The use of space information in various industries has also become an integral part of the successful development of the Russian economy.

Reception, registration, processing, archiving, cataloging and dissemination of information from Russian and foreign satellites is carried out by the Scientific Center for Operational Monitoring of the Earth "Russian Space Systems." The center has developed methods and technologies for the targeted use of space systems, formed the composition of consumers and built connections with more than a hundred organizations and enterprises. A number of complex thematic projects have been successfully implemented in cooperation with Russian and international organizations.

As part of the Russian orbital group, today there are also satellites that shoot in the visible and infrared bands of the spectrum. They provide the solution of the tasks of hydrometeorological, natural resource and environmental monitoring, control of emergency situations and the state of objects, mapping. Within the framework of the Federal Space Program of Russia for 2006-2015, space complexes with modern film equipment of various types are being created, as well as balanced development of ground infrastructure.

The RCC is developing payload equipment and new generation on-board equipment, in particular, multi-zone optical scanning devices, high-speed on-board information collection and transmission systems, large-capacity on-board storage devices, information protection systems and other equipment for Earth remote sensing spacecraft.

Rescue and security

The international satellite support system for search and rescue operations COSPAS-SARSAT opened an account for saved lives at the first stage of testing. In July 1982, using a satellite, the coordinates of the accident site of a small plane in the mountains of the Canadian province of British Columbia were obtained and two crew members were rescued. Over the years of the system's existence, more than 10 thousand search and rescue operations were carried out with its help, during which over 30 thousand people were rescued around the world.

COSPAS-SARSAT allows real-time monitoring of distress signals of ship, aircraft and personal emergency beacons, determining their geographical coordinates and instantly informing search and rescue services and responsible coordination centers about emergencies.

Access to the system is open, and use is free of charge for those in distress.

The prospects for the development of COSPAS-SARSAT are associated with improving its main characteristics - reducing the time for delivering a distress signal to rescue services and increasing the accuracy of determined geographical coordinates.

In accordance with the international obligations of the Russian side, it was decided to maintain the low-orbit segment of the COSPAS-SARSAT system with new satellites.

Monitoring and forecasting of emergencies

One of the most promising areas of work of the Russian Space Systems is the creation of a system for monitoring and forecasting emergency situations. The Multipurpose Aerospace Predictive Monitoring System (IASM) is based on the idea of ​ ​ integrating the resources of existing and developed ground, air and space-based predictive monitoring tools all over the world.

The RCS specialists have been engaged in the design of the MAXM since 2011. Within the framework of the project, it is planned to carry out information integration of both existing and promising space systems for remote sensing of the Earth, communication and relay, meteorological and navigation support, national and international aviation and ground facilities in the interests of predictive monitoring of natural and man-made emergencies.

The implementation of this concept can become a long-term innovative national idea that can revive science-intensive sectors of the domestic economy, attract foreign investments, and create conditions in Russia for the emergence of an integrated service operator in the field of predictive aerospace monitoring. MAXM will serve as a demonstration of Russia's real capabilities in the high-tech aerospace sector, opening a fundamentally new market for such services.

History and modernity

2024: Production of repeaters for satellites launched in Russia

Mass production of relay systems for satellites has begun in Russia. This was announced in the press service of the holding "Russian Space Systems" (RKS), which is part of the state corporation "Roscosmos," in June 2024

These devices will provide reliable transmission of satellite images, television and radio signals, as well as meteorological and navigation information. According to TASS, the RKS holding has developed and launched into mass production one of the most important onboard spacecraft systems - a relay complex. This is the company's own development that guarantees high reliability of data transmission between spacecraft and ground stations. The complex consists of unified microwave devices and is an integral part of the radio engineering complex on board satellites.

Mass production of relay systems for satellites has begun in Russia

According to the press service of the Russian Space Systems holding, the relay complex has passed successful tests and is already being used on the world's first highly elliptical hydrometeorological space system Arctic-M, as well as on geostationary satellites of the Electro-L series. According to the director of projects for the creation of on-board equipment for communication, relay, search and rescue systems, Deputy General Designer of the RKS Alexander Kondrashov, RKS is the only Russian company that creates such high-tech complexes based on its own developments. Relay complexes developed by RKS will be used not only in existing projects, but also in future space missions.

Understanding the growing demands of the industry, we launched the streaming production of equipment and its components, are ready to work ahead of schedule and provide our equipment with all promising space projects, "said Alexander Kondrashov.[1]

2023: Inclusion in the RCS of NPP Kvant, NPP Geophysics-Cosmos and NPP OPTEX

The integrated structure of Russian Space Systems (RKS, part of the State Corporation Roskosmos"") includes companies - JSC Scientific and Production Enterprise Kvant (NPP Kvant), JSC Scientific and Production Enterprise Geophysics-Cosmos (NPP Geophysics-Cosmos). This was reported to the RKS on October 18, 2023. Roscosmos transferred the shares of these structures belonging to the State Corporation to the trust management of Russian Space Systems JSC. By the decision of the shareholders, the staff of NPP OPTEX (Scientific and Production Enterprise Optical and Electronic Complexes and Systems), a branch of RCC Progress JSC, also joined the staff of Russian Space Systems JSC.

In accordance with the Program for Strategic Transformation of Enterprises, space instrument making approved by the Supervisory Board of Roscosmos, the RKS holding acts as a center for the integration of high-tech organizations - industries companies, research institutes, design bureaus and assembly industries in order to preserve and progress the development, scientific technological, production and innovative potential of space instrumentation enterprises. By the integration of companies, the RKS holding forms competence centers for power supply equipment and optical and optical-electronic systems for existing and promising spacecraft.

The strategic task set by Roscosmos before the instrument-making holding is the transition to the industrial model satellite of equipment production as soon as possible. With the entry of NPP Kvant, NPP Geophysics-Cosmos, NPP OPTEX into the RKS, we are expanding the range of areas for the development and production of "filling" satellites - power supply systems and optoelectronic devices and sensors. The consolidation of these competencies in the RKS will allow the holding to supply domestic finisher enterprises with "turnkey" the entire palette of reliable and high-quality service on-board equipment, as well as target spacecraft systems. " said General Director of RKS Gennady Erokhin.

JSC NPP Kvant, which has been counting its history since 1919, is the parent company of Roscosmos for the development and production of systems for converting various types of energy into electrical energy and specializes in creating autonomous power sources. The development of NPP "Quantum" provides power supply to numerous spacecraft, as well as Russian modules of the International Space Station.

Our enterprise is a single scientific and technical complex capable of solving problems of any complexity in the field of space power. Combining these competencies with the capabilities of the RKS holding will repeatedly speed up the processes of creating new types of power systems, since we will be included in a single design and production chain, and products will be produced in a common engineering and digital ecosystem, noted the general director of NPP "Kvant" Andrey Karabanov.

JSC NPP Geophysics-Cosmos, which began in 1837 as a store of optical accessories, has been the main supplier of optical and electronic devices for the rocket and space industry since 1958. In October 2023, in the structure of Roscosmos, the company specializes in the development, manufacture and testing of optoelectronic devices and sensors for orientation and navigation systems of spacecraft for various purposes.

The integration of the company into a single holding of space instrument making it possible to concentrate as much as possible the scientific, financial and production capabilities for the implementation of the most important industry programs. I am sure that this will give a new impetus to the development of our developments in the field of optics, which are extremely in demand for the creation and functioning of multi-satellite orbital groups, told the general director of NPP "Geophysics-Cosmos" Evgeny Fomichev.

Since 1990, NPP "OPTEX" has been creating optical-electronic complexes for remote sensing of the Earth, control systems and software, sensors and devices for spacecraft of different classes, developing onboard optical communication modules, ground test equipment.

The concentration of domestic competencies in optical and electronic systems in the RKS holding will significantly strengthen the position of Russian space instrumentation, form a single developer and supplier of optical and electronic equipment and electronic systems for satellites, accelerate the transition of the rocket and space industry to conveyor production of space equipment, told the head of the Scientific and Production Center "OPTEX" RKS Alexander Baklanov.

In 2022, the Yaroslavl Radio Plant became part of the integrated structure of the RKS, which became the basic serial production site of domestic space instrumentation.

2022

Production growth of more than 60%

Holding "The Russian space Systems" (RKS, part of the State Corporation Roskosmos"") in 2022 increased production by more than 60 percent. The hard work of the entire holding team made it possible to fulfill the complex tasks of the production program. The company announced this on April 3, 2023.

Revenue growth was provided by the supply of equipment for satellite the groups Electro"," Meteor"," Arctic"," as well as systems for the Soyuz-MS and Progress-MS spacecraft.

Projects for the advanced purchase of components brought positive results, which made it possible to supply equipment to customers in 2022 in accordance with the contractual deadlines. In 2023, we will continue to work on the unification and standardization of our equipment to fulfill the task set by Roscosmos to switch to an industrial model of satellite production, said Gennady Erokhin, general director of the Russian Space Systems holding.

The production program of the RKS for 2023 is planned to exceed the indicators of 2022. To ensure the technological independence of the rocket and space industry and the supply of equipment, complexes and systems to customers, the holding companies continue to introduce domestic electronic components into development and switch to unified solutions for the concept of an integrated on-board information system (IBIS).

Gennady Erokhin - the new general director of Russian Space Systems

At the end of December 2022, it was announced the appointment of Gennady Erokhin as the new general director of Russian Space Systems. Read more here.

Creation of a competence center for the production of microwave filters for on-board spacecraft equipment

The "The Russian space systems" holding (RKS, part of the State Corporation Roskosmos"") has created a specialized competence center for the production of microwave filters for on-board spacecraft equipment. The launched mass production will ensure the technological independence of space instrument making in this segment, will make it possible to complete domestic, satellites communications navigation and eco-monitoring with unified high-quality products, and will accelerate the transition to conveyor production of spacecraft.

The main task of waveguide microwave filters is to maximize the suppression of "noise" components of radio signals while maintaining useful ones. Such products, installed on the navigation receivers of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicles, allow you to filter out the interference that prevents the satellite navigation system from tracking the trajectory during launch. Waveguide filters on the sides of satellites transmitting high-detail images to Earth provide permissible levels of harmful components in the signal structure, which is important for the efficient operation of the data transmission system of Earth remote sensing spacecraft (remote sensing spacecraft).

The first product line of the created competence center is miniature filters based on high-resistance silicon, made using the technology of "waveguide integrated into a substrate" (or SIW filters). Such filters are used in equipment that generates and processes signals with frequencies up to 60 GHz, where strict requirements for accurate frequency selection are imposed.

Another innovative product is filters on ceramic resonators. Their main quality is a compact size, on average 15x10x6 mm. These filters carry out preliminary coarse and accurate "cutting" of the signal. The solution has already been launched into a series, over 100 "flight" samples of these products have been created.

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Such filters will be equipped with onboard receivers of navigation equipment of the differential correction and monitoring system (SDKM) of the RKS holding, which helps users on Earth to determine the location up to several centimeters. The development of this technology will give an important impetus to the development of unmanned services for business and citizens.

The holding "Russian Space Systems" also established pilot production 3D printing of waveguide filters made of aluminum, which allows you to create free-form filters (topologies). Classical metalworking does not provide such space for technical solutions.

Appointment of Georgy Tretyakov as Acting General Director

By the decision Roskosmos of the State Corporation ","The Russian space instrument making Roscosmos Georgy Tretyakov. announced this on October 26, 2022. More. here

Definition of the integration tasks of the Yaroslavl Radio Plant

24 mata 2022 company "The Russian space systems" reported strategic tasks of integration of PJSC Yaroslavl Radio Plant. Read more here.

Launch of production of printed circuit boards from domestic materials

On March 14, 2022, the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) announced to TAdviser the creation of a competence center for the production of printed circuit boards from domestic raw materials and materials. All equipment of automatic lines of the center is combined into a single system of interaction, including smart buffers, loaders and unloaders, exchanging signals between each other for coordinated operation.

The RKS holding became the first high-tech company in Russia to produce printed circuit boards for space from domestic materials, the RKS said in a statement. - At the site in Moscow, a closed production and technical complex was organized with a full set of special equipment that minimizes the impact of the human factor. Production facilities, coupled with intelligent process automation, including product quality control, will ensure the technological independence of Russian space.

As Dmitry Rogozin, general director of Roscosmos, said on March 14 in his Telegram channel, the state corporation acquired a controlling stake in Yaroslavsky Radio Plant from Sistema and included it in its Russian Space Systems space instrument holding. This deal, he said, has become a landmark event in the rocket and space industry, since thanks to it, the state corporation Roscosmos now has the ability to mass-produce space-based electronic equipment on its own.

Now we have a full cycle of serial production of payload modules for promising satellites communications and relaying, navigation satellites, as well as remote sensing satellites, - Lands concluded the head of Roscosmos.

Thus, RKS can already mass-produce multilayer printed circuit boards with high routing density and width of conductors and gaps measured in fractions of a millimeter, as well as flexible-rigid multilayer printed circuit boards that allow you to obtain switching products without using the usual wired installation, representatives of the holding specified.

Special attention, according to them, was paid to the technological preparation of production. Specialists use modern software complexes to increase productivity and ensure quality indicators through automatic means of verification and control of technological processes. At the same time, the developers work cloudy in a digital platform on specially configured ones. computer-aided design systems Technological libraries CAD are written by technologists of production areas of the workshop, which already at the design stage lays down their proper quality in the products. As a result, the RKS increases the reliability and durability of the final devices that the Russian the spacecraft will be equipped with tomorrow.

"Russian companies, and not only from the space sector, who purchased dielectrics, raw materials and materials from foreign manufacturers, claim that in recent years the quality of foreign materials has gradually decreased. Formally, of course, the characteristics of the products remained within the requirements of technical conditions, but in fact it turned out that they began to lose functional properties during real operation, - said the general director of the RKS Andrei Tyulin.

According to him, the RKS tried to solve these problems at the level of complaints and legal mechanisms, communicating with suppliers, but in vain. Now printed circuit boards are made only from domestic raw materials and materials.

The Center for the Development and Production of Printed Circuit Boards is an industry competence center deployed within the framework of the integrated structure of our instrument-making holding, "added Andrey Tyulin.

The competence center created in the RKS will provide the needs for printed circuit boards for on-board and ground equipment of rocket and space technology products for the entire holding and cooperation companies. It is assumed that new boards made using domestic materials, chemical products and technologies will be used in all developments of the RKS holding, including the equipment of new generations of satellites Arktika-M, Electro-L, IBIS-KA and others. All modern developments are carried out with an emphasis on unification - one of the main strategic goals of the RKS in the field of electronics for space, the holding emphasized.

"To develop and manufacture promising and complex products, RKS specialists need to increase the characteristics: reduce dimensions, reduce weight, increase installation density, reduce power consumption and expand functionality. To do this, we are investing in promising technologies for the manufacture of printed circuit boards, "said Evgeny Nesterov, deputy general director of the RKS for strategic development and innovation.

First of all, we are talking about the competencies for the production of multilayer printed circuit boards by new methods that significantly increase the density of tracing and installation. At the same time, the electric radios are mounted both on the outer layers and embedded inside - due to the "internal installation" technology, this increases the density of the layout of modules, units and units of electrical radios, reduces the development time of experimental products.

The PCC is also moving to the production of optoelectronic printed circuit boards, which have no analogues in characteristics among traditional boards with copper signal transmission lines. This technology will overcome the problems associated with an increase in the density of input/output signals, the presence of electromagnetic interference, high energy consumption and others associated with an increase in frequency and data transfer rate.

At the same time, RKS specialists are mastering the technology of creating optical modules of on-board equipment with improved characteristics based on integrated photonics technologies. Complex promising multi-satellite and multi-component systems involve operation in new frequency bands at high data rates.

For the production of optical modules, RKS has developed technologies for precision surface processing of glasses and crystalline materials, as well as technologies for their accurate installation with control of flatness and angular rotation.

The RKS has also formed a scientific and technical base for the production of integral photon structures based on microelectronics processes. The technology of multimicron integrated waveguides has been developed, which allows creating modern noise-proof high-speed information transmission lines - this is how the weight and size parameters of devices and the number of connections inside them are reduced.

Roscosmos will support private Russian space companies

March 9, 2022 it became known that Roskosmos"" will provide support to private. Russian space companies They will be given access to domestic developments in the field of space, instrument making as well as the possibility of almost free delivery to orbit created by private design bureaus startups space and devices. More. here

2021

75 years since the founding of JSC "Russian Space Systems"

13/05/2021 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of Russian Space Systems JSC (RKS, part of the State Corporation Roskosmos""). On May 13, 1946, by Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 1017-419, the Research Institute 885 (NII-885, today - RKS) was created, which became one of the key enterprises of the country's emerging rocket and space industry and one of the first domestic specialized organizations for the development and creation of equipment and devices rocket and space purpose.

For 75 years, NII-885 specialists, and then RKS made a significant contribution to the development of the domestic space industry, to all the main achievements of the USSR and Russia in space exploration and exploration. The development of the RKS ensured the successful creation of the first domestic multi-stage missiles, the development and launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, as well as the first human flight into space. The equipment created in the RKS has become one of the key factors in the success of domestic programs for the study of the Moon, Mars, Venus and deep space. The company has created advanced space communication and navigation systems.

The company's specialists ensure the safety of launches, flights of transport cargo and manned spacecraft, control of spacecraft. RKS is developing a line of products based on Earth remote sensing technologies. Also, the RKS team participated in the creation and continues to develop a global navigation satellite system. GLONASS The company successfully performs government tasks, supplying onboard equipment and intelligent systems for the vast majority of projects of the domestic space program.

In 2021, the Supervisory Board of the State Corporation Roscosmos approved the program of strategic transformations of space instrumentation enterprises and the decision to form a space instrumentation holding on the basis of Russian Space Systems JSC. These decisions at the level of the national economy determine the future appearance of one of the most important components of the rocket and space industry in Russia and are aimed at preserving and progressively developing the scientific, technological, production and innovative potential of space instrumentation enterprises.

The new integrated structure of space instrumentation will include leading companies, research institutes, design bureaus and assembly industries aimed at ensuring complete import independence of the Russian rocket and space industry in the supply of space microradioelectronics and instrument making products. The creation of a single integrated structure will make it possible to implement a unified technical policy in the field of space instrumentation, accelerate the modernization of fixed assets, and avoid parallelism and duplication of work. It is expected that the integration of companies will allow for several years to achieve the level of global competitiveness, will ensure the transition to new technologies, as well as the introduction of the results of space activities and digital services in the interests of various sectors of the economy and social sphere.

The 75th anniversary of Russian Space Systems coincides with the anniversary of the entire Russian rocket and space industry. With the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 1017-419 of May 13, 1946, work began in our country to create reactive weapons and the rocket and space industry began to form. As part of the implementation of this resolution, key enterprises and organizations were created that played central roles in the formation and further development of the domestic space industry.

Roscosmos approved a program of transformations of space instrumentation

The Supervisory Board of the Roscosmos State Corporation approved in February 2021 a program of strategic transformations of space instrumentation enterprises and a decision to form a space instrumentation holding on the basis of Russian Space Systems JSC (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation). These decisions at the level of the national economy determine the future appearance of one of the most important components of the rocket and space industry in Russia and are aimed at preserving and progressively developing the scientific, technological, production and innovative potential of space instrumentation enterprises.

The approval of the program was attended by the Military Industrial Commission of Russia, the Ministry of Finance of Russia, the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, Rosatom State Corporation, Roscosmos State Corporation and other organizations of the rocket and space industry. In addition, the priority tasks of the development of the Russian radio-electronic industry in the field of "space" microelectronics have been taken into account.

The new integrated structure of space instrumentation will include 17 companies, research institutes, design bureaus and assembly industries aimed at ensuring complete import independence of the Russian rocket and space industry in the supply of space microradioelectronics and instrument making products. The creation of a single integrated structure will make it possible to implement a unified technical policy in the field of space instrumentation, accelerate the modernization of fixed assets, and avoid parallelism and duplication of work.

The transformation will affect companies already part of the RKS holding, and other related enterprises. On the basis of enterprises, product and production centers of competence will be formed, for which it is planned to introduce new uniform industry standards. To coordinate work and increase the efficiency of interaction, all of them will work within a single digital environment. It is expected that the integration of companies will allow for several years to achieve the level of global competitiveness, will ensure the transition to new technologies, as well as the introduction of the results of space activities and digital services in the interests of various sectors of the economy and social sphere.

The main priorities of the program are the formation of a new technological chain for creating products, the transition to digital design and production, as well as the development of new related markets for electronic equipment, services and services. The solution of these problems is planned to be ensured through investments in the modernization of production facilities and promising developments, advanced training of employees.

2017: RKS offers regions infrastructure to digitalize the economy

Holding "Russian Space Systems" began in the summer of 2017 to create an intellectual infrastructure of the "digital economy" in the regions of Russia based on the technologies of global space observation and navigation systems. On June 8-9, in Ufa, the holding signed an agreement on cooperation in this direction with the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

The parties agreed on joint work to accelerate the socio-economic development of the republic by creating and distributing new intelligent geo-information services. They will ensure the functioning of the digital government being created in the region and the introduction of innovative approaches in construction, insurance, agriculture, security and other sectors of the economy.

Within the framework of similar agreements, each of which takes into account the specific features of the regions, the RKS is already working in the Arkhangelsk, Irkutsk, Nizhny Novgorod regions, Perm Territory, Altai Territory, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the Republic of Crimea and others.

As part of the cooperation of the RKS with the regions of Russia, it is planned to create information and control systems based on the use of modern space navigation-time, geodetic and hydrometeorological technologies, as well as technologies for communication, control, relay and remote sensing of the Earth.

Together with the regions of Russia, the RKS is already implementing a project to increase the accuracy of navigation data by combining networks of differential correction stations. In addition, pilot projects are being implemented in the regions in the field of monitoring transport, dangerous goods, environmental monitoring, as well as management in agricultural activities, land use, road and water management.

The agreement with the Republic of Bashkortostan was signed as part of the work of the RCC on the implementation of the "Fundamentals of State Policy in the Use of the Results of Space Activities in the Interests of the Modernization of the Economy of the Russian Federation and the Development of its Regions for the Period until 2030," approved by order of the Government of the Russian Federation of September 1, 2015 No. 1698-r.

2016

Key Events of the Year

• The work on the unification of product structures and applied technologies made it possible to reduce the duplication of structural and technological solutions of the equipment created at the holding enterprises. The state-of-the-art product quality control system being implemented has opened up the possibilities for the transition from piece production to serial production and has formed the conditions for ensuring greater systematization of control processes. This was also facilitated by the policy of "digital transformation" pursued by the RKS.
• The creation of the Eastern Instrumentation System from scratch, the work to prepare and ensure the first launch from the new Russian Vostochny cosmodrome in April 2016 confirmed that space instrumentation is one of the most important and most effective areas of the rocket and space industry.
• RKS specialists in 2016 modernized the ground control complex (NKU) of the Russian segment of the ISS. For the first time in the history of manned space flights, it includes command and measuring points of the ground-based automated spacecraft control complex and command and measuring systems "Maple" and "Maple-R."
• As part of the modernization and expansion of production, the RKS began to implement a project for the technical re-equipment of the production of multi-spectral scanning devices for Earth remote sensing spacecraft (remote sensing devices). This will allow 3.5 times to increase the production of such products until 2020, contributing to the development of a domestic grouping of DZZ devices.
• The parent company of the holding is implementing projects for the introduction of digital design, production and management technologies. In 2016, the work of the RKS data processing center was reorganized, its new capabilities significantly increase the efficiency of information processing and storage in the interests of the RKS holding and other enterprises in the Russian rocket and space industry.
• One of the key areas of work of all companies of the holding was to ensure the technological independence of the rocket and space industry and the development of the latest highly reliable on-board and ground equipment. One of the first results of the introduction of the latest world technologies was the opening in the fall of 2016 of the production of highly reliable solid-state power amplifiers at Sinertek LLC, a joint venture of RKS and the European concern Airbus Defense and Space. Technologies will ensure the release in Russia of key elements of spacecraft transmission devices with a guaranteed life of 15 years.
• In 2016, the holding's teams of companies were replenished with hundreds of young specialists, including graduates of leading technical universities in Russia. The enterprises are introducing the concept of continuing education, which provides for constant professional development of employees. Young specialists acquire the necessary experience and skills within the framework of the current mentoring system, represent space instrumentation at the championships of workers and engineering specialties and attend specialized courses at the enterprises themselves.
• In 2016, the development of product and production competence centers of the RKS holding continued
• In 2016, RKS holding companies celebrated the 70th anniversary of Russian space instrumentation. Research Institute 885 (NII-885, today - RKS) was founded on May 13, 1946. Over the years, the company has made a significant contribution to all the key achievements of the USSR and Russia in space exploration and exploration.
• The RKS holding has completed important stages in the development of equipment and systems, including the Kasatka-R space radar with a synthesized aperture, the infrastructure of the Federal Network Operator of Geo-Information Services, the Unified Information System for Remote Sensing of the Earth from Space and the System for High-Precision Monitoring of the Displacement of Engineering Structures (SVMSIS). The teams of the group's companies worked to improve the system of mutual measurements for docking the Kurs spacecraft, created new on-board telemetry systems for rocket and space technology, continued to develop an on-board radio complex for the transmission of scientific data and synchronization for the promising space radio telescope Spektr-M (Millimetron). The holding's specialists developed new antenna systems for spacecraft and ground control systems, developed a micro-robot technical platform for working in space and much more.

RKS switches to digital control of all production cycles

Since the beginning of 2016, Russian Space Systems JSC (RKS, part of the ORKK) has begun introducing innovative technologies of a digital enterprise for the development and production of domestic microelectronics, equipment, systems and space complexes. As part of the ongoing reform of the rocket and space industry in Russia, the company in 2016-2018 plans to change the control system, modernize production and introduce new technical regulations. Digital technologies will reduce development time, reduce costs and ensure the production of the latest space equipment with high production and economic efficiency.

Digital transformation integrates the information and business processes of Russian Space Systems into a single effective complex. The company's transition to digital principles of operation is due to the revision of basic management algorithms and optimization of production processes. The widespread introduction of the latest automation tools should transform RKS into one of the leading digital enterprises in Russia.

Digital manufacturing technologies mean the creation in electronic form of a description of the entire life cycle of products: from the idea, design, prototyping, release of the model and its testing, to launch into a series, sale to the customer, operation and disposal.

2015

Russian space systems: association of space instrumentation enterprises

As part of the systemic reform of the rocket and space industry, RKS will act as an integrator of the association of enterprises in the space instrumentation industry. It is planned that the association of instrument-making enterprises for the space industry will include companies developing and producing onboard equipment for spacecraft and space systems for various purposes: NPO IT, NIIFI, OKB MPEI, NII TP, NPO Orion and others.

In developing the Program, special attention is paid to the development of the ground-based spacecraft control complex and the global navigation satellite system GLONASS - the orbital satellite constellation and the ground-based system of functional additions. The integration of enterprises will give a new impetus to the development of security technologies, including within the framework of the program for the development of the Russian segment of the COSPAS-SARSAT search and rescue system.

In the medium term, the association implements the following tasks: increasing the efficiency of the use of electronic components, creating unified rows of target equipment and modules of service systems, developing a single geographically distributed data reception and processing network for remote sensing (remote sensing of the Earth), creating a production system based on specialization centers by types of products and a network of contract industries.

According to the plans of the ORKK and the participants in the project to create an association of space instrumentation enterprises, the key areas of its activity will be:

• development and production of onboard systems and instruments for spacecraft;
• creation of ground-based automated control systems and data reception and processing systems;
• ensuring the operation and maintenance of the products.

Russian space systems will increase the authorized capital by 5.964 billion rubles

OJSC Russian Space Systems (RKS, part of the ORKK) will increase its authorized capital by placing an additional issue of shares by 5.964 billion rubles. The additional issue will be carried out for the subsequent increase in stakes in subsidiaries and the implementation of investment projects aimed at the development of space instrumentation.

An additional issue of 59,643 thousand ordinary shares with a par value of 100 rubles is carried out by the relevant decision of the General Meeting of Shareholders of the RKS dated December 29, 2014. The additional issue is carried out in the interests of the ORKK and the Russian Federation represented by the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo).

Payment for shares of Russian Space Systems is planned by shares of subsidiaries and affiliates of RKS, which, in accordance with the Decree of the President of Russia "On the Control System of the Rocket and Space Industry" No. 874 of December 2, 2013, were included in the authorized capital of ORKK.

As a result, RKS is expected to increase its own stakes in subsidiaries to controlling ones. In particular, the stake in OJSC NIIFI"" (sensor and converting equipment, measurement systems) should increase to 71.35%, OJSC OKB MPEI (onboard, ground and special antennas, radio telescopes, optical communication systems, etc.) - up to 75.06%.

The share of RKS participation in NPO IT OJSC (space digital and analog communications, telemetry systems, sensor-converting equipment, mobile measuring points, etc.) will increase to 87.15%, NII TP OJSC (spacecraft control systems and complexes, radar systems, radio engineering complexes) - up to 89.85%.

The stake in NPO Orion OJSC (on-board and ground monitoring systems, flight control software for spacecraft and data reception and transmission systems, etc.) will grow to 100%.

2014

At the end of August 2014, Andrei Tyulin was appointed General Director of Russian Space Systems (RKS). Earlier, Tyulin served as deputy general director of the Radioelectronic Technologies concern (KRET, the structure of the Rostec state corporation) for strategic planning and ensuring the fulfillment of the state defense order.

On October 21, 2014, the Express-AM6 telecommunications spacecraft was launched into orbit. The on-board equipment of the command and measurement system and the Express-AM6 ground control system, which provide satellite-to-Earth communication, transmit telemetric information and allow sending control commands to the satellite and monitor their execution, were developed by the Russian Space Systems. The satellite is designed to provide a wide range of communication and broadcasting services in Russia.

In November 2014, Russian Space Systems announced its readiness to deploy China a differential correction and monitoring system (SDKM) of the Russian satellite navigation system in stations. GLONASS It is expected that the deployment of Russian SDKM stations on the territory of the PRC will increase navigation characteristics for signal consumers. By GLONASS this time, there were already 19 SDKM stations on the territory of Russia, allowing consumers to receive a navigation signal with an accuracy of one meter. Three stations are located in Antarctica, one in, Brazil two are planned to open Kazakhstan in and one in. Belarus

The equipment developed by the Russian Space Systems provided specialists with information during the tests of the Angara-A5 heavy-class launch vehicle, which took place on December 23, 2014. The collection of information on the launch vehicle and the acceleration unit was carried out using telemetric, sensor-converting and transmitting equipment created in NPO IT OJSC, OKB MPEI OJSC and NIIFI OJSC, which are part of the RKS.

The launch of the second satellite Resource-P"" held on December 26, 2014 should double the capabilities of the operator of the Russian space facilities DZZ - the Scientific Center for Operational Monitoring of the Earth (NC OMZ) of the Russian Space Systems to conduct highly detailed and hyperspectral shooting of the planet's surface. Spacecraft of the Resource-P series form the basis of the Russian system of highly periodic remote sensing of the Earth (DZZ), which provides consumers in Russia and other countries with high-detail images of ultra-high, high and medium resolution. As of December 2014, the Russian orbital group DZZ consisted of six spacecraft providing all types and modes of optical-electronic observation, including hyperspectral shooting: Resurs-DK1, Resurs-P No. 1, Kanopus-V, Electro-L and Meteor-M No. 1 and No. 2. The transfer of Resource-P No. 2 to normal operation is scheduled for April 2015.

2013

Volume of work performed - 12,747,6 million rubles

Accounts receivable of Russian Space Systems as of December 01, 2013 decreased by RUB 265 million and accounts payable decreased by RUB 1,100 million. Accounts receivable significantly exceeded the accounts payable.

In 2013, the lending policy was revised, which made it possible to reduce the loan portfolio by 1.1 billion rubles in 2013, and reduce the cost of servicing loans and documentary operations by more than 200 million rubles.

The volume of work performed in 2013 reached the maximum value in ten years and amounted to 12,747,6 million rubles, which is 2,620,1 million rubles more than in 2012.

Compared to 2012, employees' wages increased by more than 10% on average, while labor productivity also increased.

Re-creation of full-time and part-time postgraduate studies

To ensure the professional growth of employees in 2013, full-time and correspondence postgraduate studies were recreated, a doctoral program was created, the organization formed the basic departments of MIPT, MAI, RUDN University, and work continued on the development of scientific schools.

2012

Ministry of Internal Affairs: GLONASS developers appropriated more than 500 million rubles

Employees of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) and the Fourth Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs revealed the facts of unjustified spending of more than 565 million rubles allocated from the state budget for the development of the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

The heads of the Russian Space Systems (RKS) company are suspected of illegal activities. According to the information provided, they entered into contracts for the implementation of research work with commercial organizations that do not have their own material and technical base and full-time specialists with appropriate qualifications.

Employees of the GUEBiPK found that in fact the work was carried out by full-time employees of the enterprise, and payment for allegedly completed contracts was transferred to the accounts of two controlled firms. Then the funds were withdrawn from legal circulation through a chain of one-day firms and assigned.

The facts of unreasonable spending of funds were confirmed by the result of a departmental audit, which was carried out by the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation. A criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Abuse of authority, entailing grave consequences).

Searches were carried out in the offices of three heads of the RKS, the accounting department of the enterprise, as well as in the premises of five commercial organizations that participated in the illegal scheme. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, operational-search measures aimed at establishing new episodes of illegal activities continue.

A few hours after the appearance of a message about the unjustified spending of 565 million rubles by Russian Space Systems, RKS made a statement on its own website.

It reports on behalf of the company that on July 3, 2012, a search took place in the RKS, during which it became known about the initiation of a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of authority).

At the same time, as indicated in the statement, "according to available information," no evidence was found for the suspicion of the leadership of the Russian Space Systems during the seizure of documents.

In addition, the author of the statement on the RKS website writes that the conclusion of the Roscosmos commission, on the basis of which a criminal case was initiated, is not true, which the company reported to the head of Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin in a letter from 01.09.2011.

On November 11, 2012, the military-industrial commission under the government of the Russian Federation dismissed the general designer of the system GLONASS and the general director. RKS Yuri Urlichich This decision was made after the revealed thefts in the company in the amount of more than 6.5 billion, rubles which were aimed at developing the system. GLONASS

The resignation of Yuri Urlichich

On November 23, 2012, the general director of the RKS Yuri Urlichich resigned from the post of general director of the company, indicating the disease as the reason, the head of the Federal Space Agency Vladimir Popovkin said this in the State Duma.

Earlier on November 11, 2012, Yuri Urlichich was removed from the post of general designer of the GLONASS system in connection with the scandal of embezzlement of more than 6.5 billion rubles aimed at developing the project.

2009

In 2009, the organization produced more than 1.4 million units of its own products and more than 2,300 devices.

During the tax audit GLONASS of the state-owned company FSUE Russian Research Institute of Space Instrumentation responsible for the navigation project (at the end of 2009 it was transformed into OJSC Russian Corporation for Rocket and Space Instrumentation and Information Systems), it turned out that a solid part of the defense funds allocated for state orders goes to companies controlled by its management. According to the tax service, which were at the disposal Marker.ru of "," orders placed in "pocket" management firms account for about 40% of all expenses of research institutes and in two years have already exceeded 1 billion rubles. At the same time, all the works were ultimately performed by the Russian Space Systems themselves (RKS) (or FSUE Russian Research Institute of Space Instrumentation). For which companies belonging to the company's management received huge state funding ― it is not clear. As a result, the company responsible for GLONASS works at the limit of profitability, but the "daughters" of counterparties flourish and, thanks to state financing, become leaders among IT companies. Russia

Parasitic firms

Actually, the task of looking for violations in the economic activities of the GLONASS developer before the inspectors of the inter-district Federal Tax Service of Russia No. 48 in Moscow did not stand. They checked the correct calculation of income tax for 2007-2008 and came across amazing things.

Despite the solid staff, most of the expenses of RKSTak, in 2007 these costs as a percentage of the total expenses amounted to 37%, in 2008 - 38% fell on the services of third-party organizations that officially fulfilled government orders assigned to RKS. Thus, a significant part of the state order, where the lead contractor was RKS, was carried out by certain CJSC NPO KP and OOO Sinertek. Their owners were several LLC (ACC Space TV CJSC (79.7% share), Cosmocrator RNII KP LLC (18.9%), Idol LLC of the Scientific and Production Association of Space Instrumentation (1.4%), which are controlled by the leadership of the state corporation. All shareholders of NPO KP are registered at the registration address of the state-owned company (namely 111020, Moscow, 53 Aviamotornaya St.) And the general director of Sinertek LLC is the adviser to the deputy general director of the state-owned company.

Having examined the premises and interviewed the staff, the tax authorities found out that the companies performing work under the state order did not have any opportunity to carry them out. They did not even have an elementary material and technical base and qualified personnel. Moreover, they did not have the right to engage in military orders, since they did not meet the necessary conditions established by the government of the Russian Federation (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 456 "On licensing activities in the field of weapons and military equipment" of 21.06.02).

All work under other people's contracts was carried out by the FSUE itself

The problem was solved simply: despite the fact that over 1 billion rubles were paid for the work performed in two years, all the work was carried out by the employees of the RKS itself. In 2007, 2,333 people were involved in the work carried out by NPO KP CJSC and 75 people in the work carried out by Sinertek LLC; in 2008 - 1715 and 74 people, respectively. The share of FSUE employees engaged to fulfill contracts concluded with NPO KP CJSC in 2007 amounted to 76%, with Sinertek LLC - 96%, in 2008 - 81 and 92%, respectively.

The problem of the necessary space for personnel was similarly solved: all RKS employees worked at their own workplaces. However, a survey of employees showed that they did not know that they were working for some third-party firms.

Tax arrears were added to the losses under the contract

As a result of this simple combination, all the costs of fulfilling the contract fell on the FSUE, and the profit went to its counterparties. Profitability, for example, ZAO NPO KP amounted to 38.7%, while the profitability of FSUE was two times lower than the planned indicator and amounted to only 5.5%.

Subsidiaries of NPO KP CJSC are also flourishing. Its most famous "daughters" are the largest Russian data center "Oversun-Mercury," as well as one of the leaders in the satellite monitoring market - "M2M telematics."

According to the results of the audit, the inspectors recognized the costs of FSUE contracts with their "pocket" firms as economically unreasonable and calculated the income tax at 277 million rubles. for two years. Unfortunately, there is no talk of a refund under the concluded agreements ― because other inspectors, oddly enough, did not find violations. But the FSUE will also pay tax arrears to all its losses under the contracts. The press service of the company "Marker.ru" reported that they did not consider the claims of the Federal Tax Service justified. Similar tax claims for 100 million rubles. for 2005 and 2006. the corporation won back in court. But this time the tax office has prepared better and already describes in much more detail the scheme according to which money left the state-owned company.

1946

In 1946, the company was at the origins of the creation of the domestic rocket and space industry - then the formation and development of the Russian Space Systems was associated with such names in the space industry as Mikhail Ryazansky and Nikolai Pilyugin. Over the years, the company has made a huge contribution to many space achievements and successes to which the expression "for the first time in the world" applies. Currently, the Russian Space Systems holding unites key instrument-making enterprises and is part of the United Rocket and Space Corporation. The company provides 12 thousand highly qualified jobs and annually increases economic indicators. Russian Space Systems is a leading enterprise in a number of strategically important space projects, programs and technologies for Russia and the entire world community.

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