RKZ Progress
RKZ Progress ( Russian РКЦ "Прогресс" ) is a state-owned Russian space company under the direction of the Roscosmos space agency . RKZ is short for "rocket and space center" (Ракетно-космический центр). Until the spring of 2014 the company was called ZSKB-Progress (ЦСКБ-Прогресс, short for Центрального специализированного конструкторского бюро Прessского бюро рessскогресрес.
RKZ Progress is the developer and manufacturer of the Soyuz rocket family . The Starsem company has been responsible for commercial marketing of the rockets since the late 1990s . In addition, the research satellites Foton , the reconnaissance satellites of the Jantar series and earth observation satellites are part of the company's product range. After the fall of the Soviet Union , machine parts, vodka and sweets were also added to the range.
The main production site, which is also called the Samara Space Center, is located in the city of Samara . In the 2000s, around 25,000 people worked there, 5000 of them in the production of the Soyuz and the rest of the R-7 rocket family .
literature
- Brian Harvey: The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program: 50 Years After Sputnik, New Frontiers . Springer Science & Business Media, 2007, p. 278 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ News archive from RKZ Progress , accessed on September 19, 2019.