S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Russian: Ракетно-космическая корпорация "Энергия" им. С.П.Королева), also known as RKK Energiya, is a Russian manufacturer of spacecraft and space station components. It was founded on 16 May 1946 and has been known successively as: Special Design Bureau number 1 of R&D Institute number 88 (Russian: ОКБ-1 НИИ-88 or OKB-1 of NII-88), TsKBEM, NPO Energia and S.P. Korolev RSC Energia. It is named after the first chief of its design bureau Sergei Korolev (1946-1966). His successors as chief designers were: Vasiliy Mishin (1966–1974), Valentin Glushko (1974–1989), Yuriy Semenov (1989–2005), Nikolay Sevastyanov (2005–2007). Its current President and Chief designer is Vitaliy Lopota. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The Space Shuttle Discovery as seen from the International Space Station. ... The International Space Station in 2007 A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live in outer space. ... is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... OKB is a transliteration of the Russian acronym for Опытное конструкторское бюро - Opytnoe Konstructorskoe Byuro, meaning Experimental Design Bureau. ... NII-88 (Scientific-Research Institute No. ... Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Серге́й Па́влович Королёв) (December 30, 1906– January 14, 1966) was the head Soviet rocket engineer and designer during the space race, known only as the chief designer during his lifetime. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Vasily Mishin Vasily Pavlovich Mishin (born January 18, 1917, died October 10, 2001) was a Soviet engineer and a prominent rocketry pioneer. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Valentin Petrovich Glushko (born September 2, 1908 in Odessa, Ukraine, died January 10, 1989) was a Russian engineer and rocketry pioneer. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nikolai Sevastianov (born 1961, Chelyabinsk, USSR (now Russia)) graduated from the Aerodynamics and Space Exploration Department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1984. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Historic projects

Throughout the years its products have included:

• series of IRBMs and ICBMs, including meteorological rockets as their modifications: R-1, R-1A, R-1B, R-1V, R-1D, R-1E, R-5, R-5M, R-11, R-11A, R-11FM, R-7, R-9, and RT-2P;

• launch vehichles: "Sputnik", "Vostok", "Molniya", "Soyuz", N1 as a part of N1-L3 lunar complex, "Energia", "Yamal", "Kvant", "Kvant-1", "Avrora";

• upper stages for different kinds of launch vehicles: blocks L and DM;

• series of research, observation and communication Earth satellites: "Sputnik", "Elektron", "Zenit", "Molniya", "Signal", "Yamal", DZZ;

• series of deep space exploration spacecraft: "Luna", "Venera", "Mars", "Zond";

• unmanned cargo spacecraft: "Progress";

• manned spacecrafts: "Vostok", "Voskhod", "Soyuz", "Soyuz T", "Soyuz TM", "Buran".

• series of Earth space stations: "Salyut", "Mir", some modules of ISS;

• lunar space station: L3 with Lunar Landing Module (as a part of N1-L3 lunar complex).

An intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) is a ballistic missile with a range of 3,000-5,500 km. ... A Minuteman III ICBM test launch from Vandenberg AFB, California, United States. ... The R-1 rocket (NATO reporting name SS-1 Scunner) (and its evolved version R-2 or SS-2 Sibling) was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. ... The R-1 rocket (NATO reporting name SS-1 Scunner) (and its evolved version R-2 or SS-2 Sibling) was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. ... The R-1 rocket (NATO reporting name SS-1 Scunner) (and its evolved version R-2 or SS-2 Sibling) was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. ... The R-1 rocket (NATO reporting name SS-1 Scunner) (and its evolved version R-2 or SS-2 Sibling) was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. ... The R-1 rocket (NATO reporting name SS-1 Scunner) (and its evolved version R-2 or SS-2 Sibling) was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. ... The R-1 rocket (NATO reporting name SS-1 Scunner) (and its evolved version R-2 or SS-2 Sibling) was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. ... The R-5 (also known as the 8K51 and by the NATO reporting name SS-3 Shyster) was a Soviet IRBM designed by the Korolev Design Bureau. ... The R-5 (also known as the 8K51 and by the NATO reporting name SS-3 Shyster) was a Soviet IRBM designed by the Korolev Design Bureau. ... R-7 with Sputnik 2 The R-7 Semyorka was the worlds first intercontinental ballistic missile and was deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War from 1959 to 1968. ... The R-9 (NATO reporting name: SS-8 Sasin) was a two stage ICBM of the Soviet Union. ... A Saturn V launch vehicle sends Apollo 15 on its way to the moon. ... Sputnik redirects here. ... The Vostok rocket (Russian Восток, translated as East) was a derivative of the Soviet R-7 ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme but later used for other satellite launches. ... Molniya 8K78 is a modification of the well-known R-7 Semyorka rocket and has four stages. ... Soyuz rocket on launch pad. ... Two N1 Moon rockets appear on the pads at Baikonur Cosmodrome in early July 1969. ... An artists conception of a Soviet Buran space shuttle lifting off atop the Energia booster. ... A Saturn V launch vehicle sends Apollo 15 on its way to the moon. ... Block D (Блок Д in Russian) is upper stage of rockets used by USSR/Russia. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... Sputnik redirects here. ... Zenit (Russian: Зени́т, Zenith) is the name of a series of military spy satellites launched by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1994. ... Molniya 1 Molniya (lightning) was a military communications satellite system used by the Soviet Union. ... Yamal (Russian: ) is a communication satellite developed by Gazcom for Russian Direct-To-Home television. ... For the purported psychic ability to sense remotely, see Remote viewing right Synthetic aperture radar image of Death Valley colored using polarimetry In the broadest sense, remote sensing is the short or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon, by the use of either recording or real... Layers of Atmosphere - not to scale (NOAA)[1] Outer space, sometimes simply called space, refers to the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. ... The Space Shuttle Discovery as seen from the International Space Station. ... The Luna programme (occasionally called Lunik) was a series of unmanned space missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976. ... Venera 7 lander Color image taken from the surface of Venus by the Soviet Venera 13 lander The Venera (Russian: Венера; formerly, sometimes referred to as Venusik in the West) series of probes was developed by the USSR to gather data from Venus. ... The Mars program was a series of Mars unmanned landers and orbiters launched by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s. ... The name Zond (meaning probe in Russian) is the name given to two series of Soviet unmanned space missions from 1964 to 1970 to gather information about nearby planets and test spacecraft. ... Unmanned resupply spacecraft are a special kind of robotic spacecraft designed to support space station operation that operate autonomously without a human crew. ... ISS Progress cargo spacecraft The Progress is a Russian expendable freighter spacecraft. ... Edward White on a spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission. ... The Vostok (Восток, translated as East) was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Unions space program for human spaceflight. ... The Voskhod (Восход, Voschod, or Wosschod, translated as Rising) was a spacecraft built by the Soviet Unions space program for human spaceflight (see Voskhod programme). ... Soyuz (Russian: Союз, pronounced sah-YOUS, meaning union) is a series of spacecraft designed by Sergey Korolyov for the Soviet Unions space program. ... Soyuz (Russian: Союз, pronounced sah-YOUS, meaning union) is a series of spacecraft designed by Sergey Korolyov for the Soviet Unions space program. ... Soyuz (Russian: Союз, pronounced sah-YOUS, meaning union) is a series of spacecraft designed by Sergey Korolyov for the Soviet Unions space program. ... The Buran spacecraft, serial number 11F35 K1, was the only fully completed and operational space shuttle from the Soviet Unions Buran program. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... The International Space Station in 2007 A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live in outer space. ... The Salyut (Russian: Салют, Salute or Firework) program was a series of space stations launched by the Soviet Union in the 1970s. ... For other uses, see Mir (disambiguation). ... “ISS” redirects here. ... This article is about Earths moon. ... The term L3 may refer to: The Microkernel predecessor of the L4 microkernel family in Computers The Level-3 CPU cache in a computer The third lumbar vertebra in Human anatomy The third Lagrange Point in an astronomical Solar System An Italian tank type in WWII Combat Vehicles The Russian...

Ongoing projects

• Energia builds Russia's Soyuz TMA spacecraft for 3-person human spaceflight missions and Progress M robotic spacecraft for cargo missions.

• Russian segment of ISS: providing its own cosmonauts for ISS expeditions; responsibility for all Russian scientific experiments.

• Sea Launch project participation - production of block DM-SL as the upper stage for Ukrainian launch vehicle Zenit-3SL.

• Universal Spacecraft Configuration - usage for development of: communications satellites, remote sensing satellites, navigation satellites and unmanned orbital servicing satellites. USC was a basis for "Yamal-100" and "Yamal-200" satellites.

Soyuz (Russian: Союз, pronounced sah-YOUS, meaning union) is a series of spacecraft designed by Sergey Korolyov for the Soviet Unions space program. ... Edward White on a spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission. ... ISS Progress cargo spacecraft The Progress is a Russian expendable freighter spacecraft. ... An artists interpretation of the MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury A robotic spacecraft is a spacecraft with no humans on board, that is usually under telerobotic control. ... “ISS” redirects here. ... Astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit outside the U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984. ... “ISS” redirects here. ... Sea Launch command ship Sea Launch Commander Sea Launch is a spacecraft launch service that uses a mobile sea platform for equatorial launches of commercial payloads on specialized Zenit 3SL rockets. ... Block D (Блок Д in Russian) is upper stage of rockets used by USSR/Russia. ... A Saturn V launch vehicle sends Apollo 15 on its way to the moon. ... The Zenit rocket (Ukrainian: Зеніт, Russian: Зени́т; meaning Zenith) is a space launch vehicle manufactured by the Yuzhnoe Design Bureau of Ukraine. ... U.S. military MILSTAR communications satellite A communications satellite (sometimes abbreviated to comsat) is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purposes of telecommunications. ... For the purported psychic ability to sense remotely, see Remote viewing right Synthetic aperture radar image of Death Valley colored using polarimetry In the broadest sense, remote sensing is the short or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon, by the use of either recording or real... For the purported psychic ability to sense remotely, see Remote viewing right Synthetic aperture radar image of Death Valley colored using polarimetry In the broadest sense, remote sensing is the short or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon, by the use of either recording or real... Yamal (Russian: ) is a communication satellite developed by Gazcom for Russian Direct-To-Home television. ... Yamal (Russian: ) is a communication satellite developed by Gazcom for Russian Direct-To-Home television. ...

Future projects

• Further assembly of ISS Russian segment: development of Multipurpose Laboratory Module (together with Krunichev Space Centre) and "Oka" space production modules (not permanently attached to ISS).

• Development of Kliper transportation system with 3 stages:
  1. Modernization of "Soyuz TMA" spacecraft for manned lunar missions.
  2. Development of "Parom" space tug (in order to replace "Progress M" cargo spacecraft).
  3. Development of "Kliper" spacecraft (for 6 persons each).

• Development of manned lunar program: landing by 2015, creating of permanent lunar base by 2020 in order to extract helium-3.

• Development of manned Mars mission: landing by 2025.

• Development of "Yamal-300" and "Yamal-400" communication satellites for Gazprom corporation.

• Development of "Smotr" remote sensing satellites.

“ISS” redirects here. ... MLM docked to the ISS The Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) will be a component of the International Space Station funded by the Russian Federal Space Agency. ... Khrunichev State Space Scientific Production Center is a Moscow-based producer of space-launch systems. ... “ISS” redirects here. ... This article is about Earths moon. ... Kliper utilizing Parom Space Tug The Parom (ferry in Russian) is a space tug that has been proposed by RKK Energia. ... ISS Progress cargo spacecraft The Progress is a Russian expendable freighter spacecraft. ... Russian media coverage of Kliper spacecraft - Russias Channel One TV network. ... Helium-3 is a non-radioactive and light isotope of helium. ... Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... Yamal (Russian: ) is a communication satellite developed by Gazcom for Russian Direct-To-Home television. ... Yamal (Russian: ) is a communication satellite developed by Gazcom for Russian Direct-To-Home television. ... Gazprom (LSE: OGZD; Russian: , sometimes transcribed as Gasprom) is the largest Russian company and the biggest extractor of natural gas in the world. ... For the purported psychic ability to sense remotely, see Remote viewing right Synthetic aperture radar image of Death Valley colored using polarimetry In the broadest sense, remote sensing is the short or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon, by the use of either recording or real...

See also

• RKK Energiya museum
• Sergey Afanasyev
• Aerospace manufacturer
• Kliper
• Parom
• Nikolai Sevastianov
• Soyuz spacecraft

The recovered Vostok 1 capsule on display at the RKK Energiya museum. ... Sergey Afanasiev in 1998. ... An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ... Russian media coverage of Kliper spacecraft - Russias Channel One TV network. ... Kliper utilizing Parom Space Tug The Parom (ferry in Russian) is a space tug that has been proposed by RKK Energia. ... Nikolai Sevastianov (born 1961, Chelyabinsk, USSR (now Russia)) graduated from the Aerodynamics and Space Exploration Department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1984. ... Soyuz (Russian: Союз, pronounced sah-YOUS, meaning union) is a series of spacecraft designed by Sergey Korolyov for the Soviet Unions space program. ...

References

External links

• Official English web site: http://www.energia.ru/english/