SR Space (formerly Success Rockets)

Success Rockets ― a private Russian company that includes the competencies necessary to generate, transmit and analyze big data obtained through space infrastructure. Work is underway on its own ultra-light class solid-fuel launch vehicles, satellite platforms for small spacecraft of three modifications, space tugs for low Earth orbits and interplanetary missions, constellations of satellites for data transmission, and artificial intelligence for processing space data of various types.

History

2021: Attraction of RUB 310 mln of investments

In April 2021, it became known about the investments of the creator of the domestic messenger "Seraphim" Anton Nemkin in the company Success Rockets. The entrepreneur, along with two other investors, invested 310 million rubles.

The founder of the startup Oleg Mansurov and the representative of Anton Nemkin told Forbes magazine about investing in Success Rockets. The shares of investors in a private space company were not disclosed.

Success Rockets intends to spend the attracted investment on the work. In particular, the company plans to conduct flight tests of the rocket, create technological samples of the tug and small spacecraft and build a system for servicing commercial orders for the analysis of space images. The money received will be enough for about a year, Mansurov said.

Russian private space company Success Rockets raised 310 million rubles

Anton Nemkin, in addition to creating the Seraphim corporate messenger, is known as the founder of the Vladex crypto exchange project. In addition, according to the Russian Service and Forbes, BBC he worked in. FSB

Not a single startup in Russia has yet set such ambitious goals as Success Rockets, Ivan Kosenkov, senior project manager of the Skolkovo Foundation's advanced production technology cluster, told Forbes. According to him, for their implementation you need a design bureau of at least 50 engineers. He noted that it is difficult to understand who will be Success Rockets customers: by April 2021, more than 70% of the satellite data market is a state order.

To create a line of launch vehicles and satellites, an industrial base and operator activities, the company will need at least 7-10 years if it worked in the US market, and in Russia this period will be even longer, Kosenkov said.

Andrei Ionin, a corresponding member of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, called the space market difficult, and Success Rockets, according to him, says that it will do everything on it that only a very large company can do.^[1]

2020: Plan for the construction of a private cosmodrome for light missiles for 600 million rubles in Dagestan

At the end of December 2020, Success Rockets announced the conclusion of an agreement with Dagestan Development Corporation JSC on the construction of a private cosmodrome for ultra-light missiles. The volume of expenses under the project is estimated at 600 million rubles. It is planned to attract funds from the state budget, as well as private investors. Read more here.

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