Roscosmos#2013–2016: Reorganization of the Russian space sector

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File:Zal raketnoi techniki.JPG in the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russia. The exhibition includes the models and replicas of the following Russian/Soviet inventions:

the first satellite, Sputnik 1 (a ball under the ceiling);

the first spacesuits (lower-left corner);

the first human spaceflight module, the Vostok 3KA (center);

the first Molniya-type satellite (upper right corner);

the first space rover, Lunokhod 1 (lower right);

the first space station, Salyut 1 (left);

the first modular space station, Mir (upper left).]]

The Soviet space program did not have central executive agencies. Instead, its organizational architecture was multi-centered; it was the design bureaus and the council of designers that had the most say, not the political leadership. The creation of a central agency after the reorganization of the Soviet Union into the Russian Federation was therefore a new development. The Russian Space Agency was formed on 25 February 1992, by a decree of President Yeltsin. Yuri Koptev, who had previously worked with designing Mars landers at NPO Lavochkin, became the agency's first director.{{cite book|last=Harvey|first=Brian|title=The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program|publisher=Springer|location=Germany|date=2007|edition=1st|chapter=The design bureaus|isbn=978-0-387-71354-0}}

In the early years, the agency suffered from lack of authority as the powerful design bureaus fought to protect their own spheres of operation and to survive. For example, the decision to keep Mir in operation beyond 1999 was not made by the agency, but by the private shareholder board of the Energia design bureau. Another example is that the decision to develop the new Angara rocket was rather a function of Khrunichev's ability to attract resources than a conscious long-term decision by the agency.

The 1990s saw serious financial problems due to the decreased cash flow, which encouraged the space agency to improvise and seek other ways to keep space programs running. This resulted in the agency's leading role in commercial satellite launches and space tourism.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} Scientific missions, such as interplanetary probes or astronomy missions during these years played a very small role, and although the agency had connections with the Russian aerospace forces, its budget was not part of Russia's defense budget; nevertheless, the agency managed to operate the Mir space station well past its planned lifespan, contributed to the International Space Station, and continued to fly Soyuz and Progress missions.

In 1994, Roscosmos renewed the lease on its Baikonur cosmodrome with the government of Kazakhstan.

On 31 October 2000, a Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:53 a.m. Kazakhstan time. On board were Expedition One Commander William M. (Bill) Shepherd of NASA and cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko of Roscosmos. The trio arrived at the International Space Station on 2 November, marking the start of an uninterrupted human presence on the orbiting laboratory.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/oct-31-2000-launch-of-first-crew-to-international-space-station|title=Oct. 31, 2000, Launch of First Crew to International Space Station|last=Loff|first=Sarah|date=28 October 2015|website=NASA|access-date=24 January 2020|archive-date=18 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918113649/https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/oct-31-2000-launch-of-first-crew-to-international-space-station/|url-status=live}}

In March 2004, the agency's director Yuri Koptev was replaced by Anatoly Perminov, who had previously served as the first commander of the Space Forces.

The Russian economy boomed throughout 2005 from high prices for exports, such as oil and gas, the outlook for future funding in 2006 appeared more favorable. This resulted in the Russian Duma approving a budget of 305 billion rubles (about US$11 billion) for the Space Agency from January 2006 until 2015, with overall space expenditures in Russia total about 425 billion rubles for the same time period.{{cite news| url=https://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2005/07/15/afx2141304.html |date=15 July 2005 | work=Forbes | title=Russian govt agrees 12.5 bln eur 10-yr space programme |archive-date=1 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070501124334/http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2005/07/15/afx2141304.html}} The budget for 2006 was as high as 25 billion rubles (about US$900 million), which is a 33% increase from the 2005 budget. Under the current 10-year budget approved, the budget of the Space Agency shall increase 5–10% per year, providing the space agency with a constant influx of money. In addition to the budget, Roscosmos plans to have over 130 billion rubles flowing into its budget by other means, such as industry investments and commercial space launches. It is around the time US-based The Planetary Society entered a partnership with Roscosmos.

• New science missions: Koronas Foton (launched in January 2009, lost in April 2010), Spektr R (RadioAstron, launched in July 2011, retired in May 2019), Intergelizond (2011?), Spektr RG (Roentgen Gamma, launched 2019, one of two telescopes operational), Spektr UV (Ultra Violet, planned 2030), Spektr M (planned 2030),[http://www.vz.ru/news/2013/2/12/619927.html ВЗГЛЯД / Российские ученые создали новую технологию для космических телескопов] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006164917/http://www.vz.ru/news/2013/2/12/619927.html |date=6 October 2013 }}. Vz.ru. Retrieved 2 August 2013. Celsta (2018?) and Terion (2018?)
• Resumption of Bion missions with Bion-M (2013)
• New weather satellites Elektro L (launched in January 2011) and Elektro P (2015)

File:ISS-30 EVA Anton Shkaplerov.jpg on EVA (February 2012)]]

The federal space budget for the year 2009 was left unchanged despite the global economic crisis, standing at about 82 billion rubles ($2.4 billion).{{cn|date=February 2023}} In 2011, the government spent 115 billion rubles ($3.8 bln) in the national space programs.{{cn|date=February 2023}}

The proposed project core budget for 2013 to be around 128.3 billion rubles. The budget for the whole space program is 169.8 billion rubles. ($5.6 bln).

By 2015, the amount of the budget can be increased to 199.2 billion rubles.[http://www.spacecorp.ru/press/branchnews/item5598.php Бюджет на 2013 год предполагает рекордное финансирование космонавтики] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309123909/http://spacecorp.ru/press/branchnews/item5598.php |date=9 March 2016 }}. Spacecorp.ru. Retrieved 2 August 2013.

Priorities of the Russian space program include the new Angara rocket family and development of new communications, navigation and remote Earth sensing spacecraft.{{cn|date=February 2023}} The GLONASS global navigation satellite system has for many years been one of the top priorities and has been given its own budget line in the federal space budget. In 2007, GLONASS received 9.9 billion rubles ($360 million), and under the terms of a directive signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in 2008, an additional $2.6 billion will be allocated for its development.{{cn|date=February 2023}}

; Space station funding issues

Due to International Space Station involvements, up to 50% of Russia's space budget is spent on the crewed space program {{asof|2009|lc=y}}. Some observers have pointed out that this has a detrimental effect on other aspects of space exploration, and that the other space powers spend much lesser proportions of their overall budgets on maintaining human presence in orbit.{{cite news|url=http://www.ato.ru/content/building-sand|title=Building on sand?The Russian ISS segment is to be completed by 2016|last=Afanasyev|first=Igor|author2=Dmitri Vorontsov|date=1 November 2009|publisher=Russia & CIS Observer|access-date=3 January 2010|archive-date=28 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120228221206/http://www.ato.ru/content/building-sand|url-status=live}}

Despite the considerably improved budget,{{when|date=October 2013}} attention of legislative and executive authorities, positive media coverage and broad support among the population, the Russian space program continues to face several problems.{{cite web|url=http://mdb.cast.ru/mdb/2-2007/item1/item3/|title=Russia's Space Program in 2006: Some Progress but No Clear Direction|date=2006|publisher=Moscow Defense Brief|access-date=23 August 2009|archive-date=27 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827204307/http://mdb.cast.ru/mdb/2-2007/item1/item3/|url-status=dead}} Wages in the space industry are low; the average age of employees is high (46 years in 2007), and much of the equipment is obsolete.{{cn|date=February 2023}} On the positive side, many companies in the sector have been able to profit from contracts and partnerships with foreign companies; several new systems such as new rocket upper stages have been developed in recent years; investments have been made to production lines, and companies have started to pay more attention to educating a new generation of engineers and technicians.

; 2011 New director

On 29 April 2011, Perminov was replaced with Vladimir Popovkin as the director of Roscosmos. The 65-year-old Perminov was over the legal age for state officials, and had received some criticism after a failed GLONASS launch in December 2010. Popovkin is a former commander of the Russian Space Forces and First Deputy Defense Minister of Russia.{{cite news|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/space-agency-chief-replaced/436139.html|title=Space Agency Chief Replaced|publisher=The Moscow Times|date=3 May 2011|access-date=3 May 2011|archive-date=24 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124152129/http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/space-agency-chief-replaced/436139.html|url-status=live}}

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As a result of a series of reliability problems, and proximate to the failure of a July 2013 Proton M launch, a major reorganization of the Russian space industry was undertaken. The United Rocket and Space Corporation was formed as a joint-stock corporation by the government in August 2013 to consolidate the Russian space sector. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said "the failure-prone space sector is so troubled that it needs state supervision to overcome its problems."{{cite news |last=Messier |first=Doug |title=Rogozin: Russia to Consolidate Space Sector into Open Joint Stock Company |url=http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/08/30/rogozin-interview-kommersant/ |access-date=1 September 2013 |newspaper=Parabolic Arc |date=30 August 2013 |archive-date=14 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214193801/http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/08/30/rogozin-interview-kommersant/ |url-status=live }}

Three days following the Proton M launch failure, the Russian government had announced that "extremely harsh measures" would be taken "and spell the end of the [Russian] space industry as we know it."{{cite news |last=Nilolaev |first=Ivan |title=Rocket failure to lead to space industry reform |url=http://rbth.ru/science_and_tech/2013/07/03/rocket_failure_to_lead_to_space_industry_reform_27729.html |access-date=1 September 2013 |newspaper=Russia Behind The Headlines |date=3 July 2013 |archive-date=25 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825135226/http://rbth.ru/science_and_tech/2013/07/03/rocket_failure_to_lead_to_space_industry_reform_27729.html |url-status=live }}

Information indicated then that the government intended to reorganize in such a way as to "preserve and enhance the Roscosmos space agency."

More detailed plans released in October 2013 called for a re-nationalization of the "troubled space industry", with sweeping reforms including a new "unified command structure and reducing redundant capabilities, acts that could lead to tens of thousands of layoffs." According to Rogozin, the Russian space sector employs about 250,000 people, while the United States needs only 70,000 to achieve similar results. He said: "Russian space productivity is eight times lower than America's, with companies duplicating one another's work and operating at about 40 percent efficiency."{{cite news |last=Messier |first=Doug |title=Rogozin Outlines Plans for Consolidating Russia's Space Industry |url=http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/10/09/rogozin-outlines-plans-consolidating-russias-space-industry/ |access-date=11 October 2013 |newspaper=Parabolic Arc |date=9 October 2013 |archive-date=10 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610155101/http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/10/09/rogozin-outlines-plans-consolidating-russias-space-industry/ |url-status=live }}

Under the 2013 plan, Roscosmos was to "act as a federal executive body and contracting authority for programs to be implemented by the industry."

In 2016, the state agency was dissolved and the Roscosmos brand moved to the state corporation, which had been created in 2013 as the United Rocket and Space Corporation, with the specific mission to renationalize the Russian space sector.{{cite news |title=Vladimir Putin just signed a decree to replace Russia's space agency |url=http://www.techinsider.io/putin-ends-roscosmos-space-agency-2015-12 |work=Tech Insider |author=Kelly Dickerson |date=28 December 2015 |access-date=29 December 2015 |archive-date=31 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231033324/http://www.techinsider.io/putin-ends-roscosmos-space-agency-2015-12 |url-status=live }}

In 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin said "it 'is necessary to drastically improve the quality and reliability of space and launch vehicles' ... to preserve Russia's increasingly threatened leadership in space."[https://spacenews.com/putin-challenges-roscosmos-to-drastically-improve-on-space-and-launch/ Putin challenges Roscosmos to "drastically improve" on space and launch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224231812/https://spacenews.com/putin-challenges-roscosmos-to-drastically-improve-on-space-and-launch/ |date=24 February 2023 }}, SpaceNews, 20 July 2018, accessed 21 July 2018. In November 2018 Alexei Kudrin, head of Russian financial audit agency, named Roscosmos as the public enterprise with "the highest losses" due to "irrational spending" and outright theft and corruption,{{Cite news|url=https://meduza.io/news/2018/11/25/aleksey-kudrin-nazval-roskosmos-rekordsmenom-po-finansovym-narusheniyam|title=Алексей Кудрин назвал "Роскосмос" рекордсменом по финансовым нарушениям — Meduza|work=Meduza|access-date=26 November 2018|language=ru-RU|archive-date=25 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125224330/https://meduza.io/news/2018/11/25/aleksey-kudrin-nazval-roskosmos-rekordsmenom-po-finansovym-narusheniyam|url-status=live}} under the leadership of Igor Komarov who was terminated in May 2018 in favour of Rogozin.

In 2020 Roscosmos under Rogozin reneged on its participation in Lunar Gateway, a NASA-led project that will see a lunar orbiter spaceport for the moon. It had previously signed an agreement in September 2017 with the Americans.{{cite news |last1=BERGER |first1=ERIC |title=After Russia's exit from the Lunar Gateway, NASA has found a new partner in UAE The United Arab Emirates is a founding member of the Artemis Accords |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/nasa-is-negotiating-with-uae-to-provide-an-airlock-for-the-lunar-gateway/ |agency=Ars Technica |publisher=Condé Nast |date=13 December 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://spacenews.com/russia-skeptical-about-participating-in-lunar-gateway/|title=Russia skeptical about participating in lunar Gateway|publisher=SPACENEWS|date=12 October 2020|access-date=25 January 2021}}

In March 2021, Roscosmos signed a memorandum of cooperative construction of a lunar base called the International Lunar Research Station with the China National Space Administration.”{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Andrew |date=9 March 2021 |title=China, Russia enter MoU on international lunar research station |url=https://spacenews.com/china-russia-enter-mou-on-international-lunar-research-station/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224231817/https://spacenews.com/china-russia-enter-mou-on-international-lunar-research-station/ |archive-date=24 February 2023 |access-date=12 March 2021 |website=spacenews.com}}

In April 2021, Roscosmos announced that it will be departing the ISS program after 2024. In its place, it was announced that a new space station (Russian Orbital Service Station) will be constructed starting in 2025.{{Cite news |date=21 April 2021 |title=Russia plans to launch own space station after quitting ISS |newspaper=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/russia-plans-launch-own-space-station-after-quitting-iss-2021-04-21/ |url-status=live |access-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025163504/https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/russia-plans-launch-own-space-station-after-quitting-iss-2021-04-21/ |archive-date=25 October 2021}}

In June 2021 Rogozin complained that sanctions imposed in the wake of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea were hurting Roscosmos.{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-07/russian-space-chief-says-u-s-sanctions-keep-satellites-grounded |title=Russian Space Chief Says U.S. Sanctions Keep Satellites Grounded |newspaper=Bloomberg |date=7 June 2021 }}

In September 2021, Roscosmos announced its revenue and net income, losing 25 billion roubles and 1 billion roubles respectively in 2020, due to the reduction of profit from foreign contracts, an increase in show-up pay, stay-at-home days and personnel health expenses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Roscosmos, these losses would also impact the corporation for the next two years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5009234|title=В 2020 году чистая прибыль Роскосмоса сократилась в 42 раза|language=ru|date=2021-09-30|publisher=Коммерсантъ|access-date=12 October 2021|archive-date=11 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011164006/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5009234|url-status=live}} In October, Roscosmos placed the tests of rocket engines in the engineering bureau of chemical automatics in Voronezh on hold for one month to deliver 33 tons of oxygen to local medical centers, as part of aid for the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite news|url=https://www.vedomosti.ru/society/news/2021/10/10/890518-roskosmos-prekratil-ispitaniya|title=Роскосмос прекратил испытания двигателей ради кислорода для больниц Воронежа|language=ru|date=2021-10-10|newspaper=Ведомости|access-date=12 October 2021|archive-date=10 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010170741/https://www.vedomosti.ru/society/news/2021/10/10/890518-roskosmos-prekratil-ispitaniya|url-status=live}}

In December 2021, the Government of Russia confirmed determination of the agreement with Roscosmos for development of next-gen space systems, the document been provided for the officials in July 2020.{{Cite web |date=2021-12-08 |title=Правительство расторгнет с Роскосмосом договор о перспективных системах |url=https://www.interfax.ru/world/808269 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213095315/https://www.interfax.ru/world/808269 |archive-date=13 December 2021 |access-date=13 December 2021 |publisher=Интерфакс |language=ru}}

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Roscosmos launched nine rockets in 2022 and 7 in the first half of 2023.

In early March 2022, Roscosmos under Rogozin suspended its participation in the ESA's Kourou, French Guiana spaceport in a tit-for-tat move over the sanctions imposed in the wake of the Russian invasion.{{cite news |last1=SKIBBA |first1=RAMIN |title=Turmoil Over Ukraine Could Debilitate Russia's Space Program |url=https://www.wired.com/story/turmoil-over-ukraine-could-debilitate-russias-space-program/ |agency=Wired |publisher=Condé Nast |date=4 March 2022}} As well Rogozin said he would suspend delivery of the RD-181 engine which is used for the Northrop Grumman Antares-Cygnus space cargo delivery system.

In late March 2022, the European Space Agency (ESA) suspended cooperation with Roscosmos in the ExoMars rover mission because of the Russian invasion, and British satellite venture OneWeb signed contracts with ISRO and SpaceX to launch its satellites after friction had developed "with Moscow" and Roscosmos, its previous orbit service provider. The friction had developed over Rogozin's command that OneWeb needed to ditch its venture capital investment from the UK government.{{cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/02/russias-roscosmos-refusing-to-launch-oneweb-internet-satellites.html |title=OneWeb's internet satellites caught in UK-Russia standoff days before launch |date=2 March 2022 }}

On 2 May 2022, Rogozin announced that Roscosmos would terminate its involvement in the ISS with 12 months' notice as stipulated in the international contract that governs the satellite.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/space/russia-sanctions-international-space-station-iss-b2069655.html |title=Russia will reportedly leave International Space Station |date=2 May 2022 }} This followed the 3 March 2022 announcement that Roscosmos would cease cooperation on scientific experiments at the Spacelab,{{cite news |url=https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/russia-axed-joint-experiments-international-143552456.html |date=3 March 2022 |title=Russia axed joint experiments on the International Space Station in response to crippling sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine |first=Marianne |last=Guenot}} and the 25 March 2022 announcement by Rogozin that "cooperation with Europe is now impossible after sanctions over the Ukraine war."{{cite news |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/cooperation-with-europe-now-impossible-says-russian-space-agency-chief-post-sanctions-1929416-2022-03-25 |title=Cooperation with Europe now impossible, says Russian space agency chief post-sanctions }}

Rogozin was removed from his job as CEO in July 2022, and replaced with Yury Borisov, who seemed to stabilize the relationship with the ISS partners, especially NASA. One complaint against Rogozin was his risky words about terminating the ISS agreement over the war in Ukraine, which he broadcast as early as April 2022.{{cite news |title=Ukraine war: Russia to halt cooperation on International Space Station over 'illegal' sanctions |url=https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-russia-to-halt-cooperation-on-international-space-station-over-illegal-sanctions-12580214 |date=2 April 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/03/25/russia-s-space-chief-says-cooperation-with-europe-now-impossible-amid-ukraine-war-fallout |title=Russia's space chief says EU cooperation 'impossible' over Ukraine |date=25 March 2022 }} At one point in time NASA had bought 71 return trips on Soyuz for almost $4 billion over six years.{{cite news |title=The Brief — The Baikonur face-off |date=16 March 2023 |publisher=EURACTIV MEDIA NETWORK BV |url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-russia/opinion/the-brief-the-baikonur-face-off/ }}

The global space-launch services market was valued at $12.4 billion in 2021 and was forecast to reach $38 billion by decade's end. An American academic wrote that in the wake of the Russian invasion, Roscosmos' share of that market was likely to decline in favour of new entrants such as Japan and India, as well as commercial entrants like SpaceX and Blue Origin.{{cite news |url=https://warontherocks.com/2022/06/sanctions-and-satellites-the-space-industry-after-the-russo-ukrainian-war/ |first=Major Jeremy |last=Grunert |publisher=WAR ON THE ROCKS |date=10 June 2022 |title=SANCTIONS AND SATELLITES: THE SPACE INDUSTRY AFTER THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR}}

In June 2023, Roscosmos held a campaign to recruit volunteers for the Uran Battalion, a militia for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{Cite news |last=Ivanova |first=Polina |date=2023-06-16 |title=Russia's latest space agency mission: raising a militia for the war in Ukraine |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/c194cb2d-3aa0-4195-9be5-e78c1d2fd183 |access-date=2023-06-16}}

In October 2023, Borisov announced the need for 150 billion rubles to build the Russian space station in the next three years. At completion in 2032, it will have absorbed 609 billion rubles.{{cite news |url=https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/95912/ |title=Roscosmos head estimates cost of Russian space station project at 609 BLN rubles before 2032 }}

In February 2024, at the 2023 AGM, Borisov announced the loss of 180 billion rubles in export revenues, chiefly engine sales and launch services, because of the Western hostility to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{cite news |url=https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/99554/ |title=Russian space industry seeing trend towards loss reduction - Roscosmos CEO }} Roscosmos had lost 90% of its launch service contracts since the advent of the war.{{cite news |title=Space superpower Russia falls down to earth |first1=AIKO |last1=MUNAKATA |first2=YUKIKO |last2=UNE |date=2 March 2024 |url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/Space-superpower-Russia-falls-down-to-earth}}{{cite news |url=https://www.eurasiantimes.com/russia-loses-90-of-satellite-launch-orders/ |title=Russia Loses 90% of Satellite Launch Orders from Europe; India's ISRO Gains Big at Moscow's Expense - Reports |date=4 March 2024 }}

Roscosmos and Russia's space industry are facing significant challenges. The country is on track to conduct its fewest orbital launches since 1961. As of August 15, 2024, only nine launches had occurred, a sharp decline partly attributed to the loss of Western customers following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Roscosmos has reported financial losses of 180 billion rubles ($2.1 billion) due to canceled contracts. The agency's first deputy director indicated it may not achieve profitability until 2025.{{cite news |last=Berger |first=Eric |url=https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/facing-financial-crisis-russia-on-pace-for-lowest-launch-total-in-6-decade |title=Facing "financial crisis," Russia on pace for lowest launch total in 6 decades |work=Ars Technica |date=2024-08-15 |accessdate=2024-08-19 }}

From 2024 on Roscosmos headquarters will be located in the new National Space Center in the Moscow district of Fili.{{Cite web|url=https://www.interfax.ru/business/822117|title=Московский офис Роскосмоса достроят в 2023 году|language=ru|date=2022-02-15|publisher=Интерфакс|access-date=15 February 2022|archive-date=15 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215063918/https://www.interfax.ru/business/822117|url-status=live}}

{{See also|Russian Orbital Segment}}

File:Zarya from STS-88.jpg module was the first module of the ISS, launched in 1998.]]Roscosmos is one of the partners in the International Space Station program. It contributed the core space modules Zarya and Zvezda, which were both launched by Proton rockets and later were joined by NASA's Unity Module. The Rassvet module was launched aboard {{OV|104}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/04/sts-132-prcb-baselines-mission-to-deliver-russias-mrm-1/|title=STS-132: PRCB baselines Atlantis' mission to deliver Russia's MRM-1|author=Chris Gebhardt|publisher=NASAspaceflight.com|date=9 April 2009|access-date=12 November 2009|archive-date=8 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008075454/http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/04/sts-132-prcb-baselines-mission-to-deliver-russias-mrm-1/|url-status=live}} and is primarily used for cargo storage and as a docking port for visiting spacecraft. The Nauka module is the final planned component of the ISS, launch was postponed several times from the initially planned date in 2007,{{cite web |url=https://ria.ru/20200523/1571871309.html |title="Роскосмос" сообщил дату запуска следующего российского модуля на МКС |language=ru |trans-title=Roscosmos announces the launch date of the next Russian module on the ISS |agency=RIA Novosti |date=23 May 2020 |access-date=30 July 2021 |archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603160031/https://ria.ru/20200523/1571871309.html |url-status=live }} but attached to ISS in July 2021.{{cite news |title=MLM Nauka docks to ISS, malfunctions shortly thereafter |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/07/nauka-docking/ |last=Harding |first=Pete |work=NASASpaceFlight |date=29 July 2021 |access-date=30 July 2021 |archive-date=31 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231185004/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/07/nauka-docking/ |url-status=live }}

Roscosmos is responsible for expedition crew launches by Soyuz-TMA spacecraft and resupplies the space station with Progress space transporters. After the initial ISS contract with NASA expired, Roscosmos and NASA, with the approval of the US government, entered into a space contract running until 2011, according to which Roscosmos will sell NASA spots on Soyuz spacecraft for approximately $21 million per person each way, thus $42 million to and back from the ISS per person, as well as provide Progress transport flights, at $50 million per Progress as outlined in the Exploration Systems Architecture Study.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/01/06/nasabuys.shtml|archive-url=https://archive.today/20060110222839/http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/01/06/nasabuys.shtml|url-status=usurped|archive-date=2006-01-10|title=NASA Signs $44m Deal with Russia for Soyus Rides to ISS – NEWS – MOSN…}} Roscosmos announced that according to this arrangement, crewed Soyuz flights would be doubled to 4 per year and Progress flights doubled to 8 per year beginning in 2008.{{update inline|date=March 2022}}{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

Roscosmos has provided space tourism for fare-paying passengers to ISS through the Space Adventures company. As of 2009, six space tourists have contracted with Roscosmos and have flown into space, each for an estimated fee of at least $20 million (USD).{{update after|2021|7|30}}

Continued international collaboration in ISS missions has been thrown into doubt by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia,{{cite journal |last1=Witze |first1=Alexandra |title=Russia's invasion of Ukraine is redrawing the geopolitics of space |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00727-x |journal=Nature |access-date=13 March 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1038/d41586-022-00727-x |date=11 March 2022 |pmid=35277688 |s2cid=247407886 |archive-date=13 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313014509/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00727-x |url-status=live }} although resupply missions continued in 2022 and 2023.

{{See also|Scientific research on the International Space Station}}

Roscosmos operates a number of programs for Earth science, communication, and scientific research on the International Space Station. Roscosmos operates one science satellite (Spektr-RG) and no interplanetary probes, as of 2024. Future projects include the Soyuz successor, the Prospective Piloted Transport System, scientific robotic missions to one of the Mars moons as well as an increase in Lunar orbit research satellites to one (Luna-Glob).

• Luna-Glob Moon orbiters and landers, Luna 25 launched in 2023 crashed onto the moon.{{cite web |last=Baylor |first=Michael |url=https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/1376 |title=Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat-M – Luna 25 & Others |date=16 April 2023 |access-date=16 April 2023 |work=Next Spaceflight}}{{Cite web |title=ГК «Роскосмос»: Об автоматической станции «Луна-25» {{!}} Space Research Institute - IKI |url=https://iki.cosmos.ru/news/gk-roskosmos-ob-avtomaticheskoy-stancii-luna-25 |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=iki.cosmos.ru}}
• Venera-D Venus lander, planned for 2029
• Fobos-Grunt Mars mission, lost in low Earth orbit in 2011 and crashed back to earth in 2012 [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16491457 "Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt space probe heads to Earth"], BBC News, 14 January 2012
• Mars 96 Mars mission, lost in low Earth orbit in 1996

Roscosmos uses a family of several launch rockets, the most famous of them being the R-7, commonly known as the Soyuz rocket that is capable of launching about 7.5 tons into low Earth orbit (LEO). The Proton rocket (or UR-500K) has a lift capacity of over 20 tons to LEO. Smaller rockets include Rokot and other Stations.

Currently rocket development encompasses both a new rocket system, Angara, as well as enhancements of the Soyuz rocket, Soyuz-2 and Soyuz-2-3. Two modifications of the Soyuz, the Soyuz-2.1a and Soyuz-2.1b have already been successfully tested, enhancing the launch capacity to 8.5 tons to LEO.

One of Roscosmos's projects that was widely covered in the media in 2005 was Kliper, a small lifting body reusable spacecraft. While Roscosmos had reached out to ESA and JAXA as well as others to share development costs of the project, it also stated that it will go forward with the project even without the support of other space agencies. This statement was backed by the approval of its budget for 2006–2015, which includes the necessary funding of Kliper. However, the Kliper program was cancelled in July 2006,[http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/07/18/Navigation/200/207935/Farnborough+Russia's+Federal+Space+Agency+cancels+manned+spacecraft.html www.flightglobal.com] and has been replaced by the new Orel project. {{As of|2023}}, no crafts were launched.

File:Galyonki aerodrome in Primorsky Krai.jpg. It is among the largest single dish radio telescopes in the world.]]

"Resurs-P"{{cite web|url=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/resurs_p.html|title=Resurs-P remote-sensing satellite|work=RussianSpaceWeb|first=Anatoly|last=Zak|access-date=29 June 2013|archive-date=7 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007044725/http://www.russianspaceweb.com/resurs_p.html|url-status=live}} is a series of Russian commercial Earth observation satellites capable of acquiring high-resolution imagery (resolution up to 1.0 m). The spacecraft is operated by Roscosmos as a replacement of the Resurs-DK No.1 satellite.

Create HEO space system "Arctic" to address the hydrological and meteorological problems in the Arctic region and the northern areas of the Earth, with the help of two spacecraft "Arktika-M" and in the future within the system can create a communications satellite "Arktika-MS" and radar satellites "Arktika-R."[http://vz.ru/news/2012/10/16/602774.html ВЗГЛЯД / Роскосмос начал создание космической системы «Арктика»] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122143607/https://vz.ru/news/2012/10/16/602774.html |date=22 November 2018 }}. Vz.ru (2012-10-16). Retrieved 2 August 2013.

The launch of two satellites "Obzor-R" (Review-R) Remote Sensing of the Earth, with the AESA radar and four spacecraft "Obzor-O" (Review-O) to capture the Earth's surface in normal and infrared light in a broad swath of 80 km with a resolution of 10 meters. The first two satellites of the projects planned for launch in 2015.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Gonets: Civilian low Earth orbit communication satellite system. On 2016, the system consists of 13 satellites (12 Gonets-M and 1 Gonets-D1).{{cite web|url=http://tass.ru/en/non-political/786288|title=Russia completes its Gonets orbital group.|access-date=31 March 2015|archive-date=8 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808143805/http://tass.ru/en/non-political/786288|url-status=dead}}

In 2018, Russia agreed to help build the Suffa observatory in Uzbekistan. The observatory was started in 1991, but stalled after the fall of the USSR.{{cite news |title=Uzbekistan, Russia to sign Suffa observatory completion plan |url=https://tashkenttimes.uz/science/3038-uzbekistan-russia-to-sign-suffa-observatory-completion-road-map |access-date=24 November 2019 |work=Tashkent Times |date=16 October 2018 |archive-date=9 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309225549/http://tashkenttimes.uz/science/3038-uzbekistan-russia-to-sign-suffa-observatory-completion-road-map |url-status=live }}

On 19 July 2014, Roscosmos launched the Foton-M4 satellite containing, among other animals and plants, a group of five geckos.{{Cite web|url = http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/sep/02/russian-space-experiment-on-gecko-sex-goes-awry/|title = Russian Space Experiment On Gecko Sex Goes Awry|date = Sep 2, 2014|website = KPBS|last = Brumfiel|first = Geoff|access-date = 30 September 2014|archive-date = 22 April 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190422193544/https://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/sep/02/russian-space-experiment-on-gecko-sex-goes-awry/|url-status = live}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.designntrend.com/articles/18811/20140902/russias-orbiting-sex-experiment-geckos-die-in-space.htm|title = Russia's Orbiting Sex Experiment Geckos Die In Space|date = Sep 2, 2014|website = Design & Trend|last = Nichols|first = Mary|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006160241/http://www.designntrend.com/articles/18811/20140902/russias-orbiting-sex-experiment-geckos-die-in-space.htm|archive-date = 2014-10-06}} The five geckos, four females and one male, were used as a part of the Gecko-F4 research program aimed at measuring the effects of weightlessness on the lizards' ability to procreate and develop in the harsh environment. However, soon after the spacecraft exited the atmosphere, mission control lost contact with the vessel which led to an attempt to reestablish communication that was only achieved later in the mission. When the satellite returned to Earth after its planned two-month mission had been cut short to 44 days, the space agency researchers reported that all the geckos had perished during the flight.

The exact cause that led to the deaths of the geckos was declared unknown by the scientific team in charge of the project. Reports from the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems in Russia have indicated that the lizards had been dead for at least a week prior to their return to Earth. A number of those connected to the mission have theorized that a failure in the vessel's heating system may have caused the cold blooded reptiles to freeze to death.

Included in the mission were a number of fruit flies, plants, and mushrooms which all survived the mission.{{Cite web|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29028326|title = Sex geckos die in orbit on Russian space project|date = Sep 2, 2014|website = BBC News|access-date = 21 June 2018|archive-date = 2 January 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200102122125/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29028326|url-status = live}}

{{Main|Russian Space Forces}}

The Russian Space Forces is the military counterpart of the Roscosmos with similar mission objectives as of the United States Space Force. The Russian branch was formed after the merging of the space components of the Russian Air Force and the Aerospace Defense Forces (VKO) in 2015. The Space Forces controls Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome launch facility. Roscosmos and the Space Forces share control of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where Roscosmos reimburses the VKO for the wages of many of the flight controllers during civilian launches. Roscosmos and the Space Forces also share control of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. It has been announced that Russia is to build another spaceport in Tsiolkovsky, Amur Oblast.{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-space-vostochny-idUSKCN0XO1R8|title=Russia launches first rocket from new spaceport at second attempt|date=28 April 2016|website=Reuters|access-date=15 July 2016|last1=Solovyov|first1=Dmitry|archive-date=16 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416162902/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-space-vostochny-idUSKCN0XO1R8|url-status=live}} The Vostochny Cosmodrome was scheduled to be finished by 2018 having launched its first rocket in 2016.

As of 2017, Roscosmos had the following subsidiaries:{{cite web|title=О мерах по созданию Государственной корпорации по космической деятельности "Роскосмос"|url=http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102397340&rdk=&backlink=1|website=Pravo.gov.ru|access-date=1 August 2017|archive-date=16 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416045738/http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102397340&rdk=&backlink=1|url-status=live}}

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