State Space Corporation "Roscosmos", commonly known simply as Roscosmos, is a state corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research.
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12 Facts About Roscosmos
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Roscosmos is headquartered in Moscow, with its main Mission Control Center in the nearby city of Korolyov, and the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center located in Star City in Moscow Oblast.
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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.
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In September 2021, “Roscosmos” announced the revenue going down by 25 billion roubles and net income - by 1 billion roubles in 2020, due to reduction of profit from foreign contracts, to increase in show-up pay, stay-at-home days and personnel health expenses because of COVID-19.
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In October 2021, “Roscosmos” put on hold for one month the tests of rocket engines in engineering bureau of chemical automatics in Voronezh to deliver 33 tons of saved oxygen by day to local medical centers due to pandemic.
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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.
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Roscosmos is furthermore responsible for expedition crew launches by Soyuz-TMA spacecraft and resupplies the space station with Progress space transporters.
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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.
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Roscosmos has provided space tourism for fare-paying passengers to ISS through the Space Adventures company.
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Roscosmos operates a number of programs for Earth science, communication, and scientific research.
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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.
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On 19 July 2014, Roscosmos launched the Foton-M4 satellite containing, among other animals and plants, a group of five geckos.
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