The State Corporation for Space Activities "Roscosmos", [note 1] commonly known simply as Roscosmos (Russian: Роскосмос), is a state corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research. [2]

Первый гражданский космодром России. Обеспечит доступ в космос с территории страны по всему спектру космических задач. Первый и крупнейший в мире космодром. Территория - 6717 кв.км. Самый северный космодром мира.

Oct 29, 2015 · An authorized federal executive agency of Russia, the Russian Federal Space Agency or Roscosmos (FKA or RKA) was formed in 1992. Formerly the Soviet Space Program, the Russian nation has a rich history in space firsts.

The RKA Mission Control Center[Note 1] (Russian: Центр управления полётами, romanized: Tsentr upravlyeniya polyotami), also known by its acronym TsUP (ЦУП) or by its radio callsign Mission Control Moscow, is the mission control center of Roscosmos.

On March 2, 1965, the Soviet government formed a civilian ministry to oversee the nation's rocket and space industry. It became the precursor to the Russian space agency, RKA, created in 1992 and to the Roskosmos State Corporation formed in January 2015.

Roskosmos, Russian government organization founded in 1992 that is responsible for managing the Russian space program. Its headquarters are in Moscow. The head of Roskosmos is assisted by a board, a science and engineering council, and the heads of 11 departments. Roskomos is the descendant of the Soviet Union ’s space program.

RKA uses the technology and launch sites that belonged to the former Soviet space program and has centralized control of Russia's civilian space program, including all manned and unmanned nonmilitary spaceflights.

Oct 4, 2016 · The Russian Space Agency (RKA), led by General Director Yuri Nikolayevich Koptev, began as a relatively small organization (a few hundred personnel) with largely administrative functions, but,...

Jan 22, 2015 · After Russia's seizure of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014, pressure mounted in Congress to more quickly wean U.S. satellite launches from the engines, known as RD-180s.

"The Russian Federal Space Agency (Russian: Федеральное космическое агентство России Federal'noye kosmicheskoye agentstvo Rossii), commonly called Roscosmos (Роскосмос Russpace) and abbreviated as FKA (ФКА) and RKA (РКА), is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science ...