Cosmotras

LLC Cosmotras International Space Company was established in 1997. The company has developed and operates a commercial launch system based on the Dnepr launch vehicle . The Dnieper is an RS-20 conversion intercontinental ballistic missile (designated NATO SS-18 Satan). MKK Cosmotras launches Dnepr launch vehicles both from the launch pad at Baikonur and from the Yasny Cosmodrome .

General Director of Cosmotras MCC:

• since July 1, 2017 - Evgeny V. Solodovnikov (marketing director ^[1] ) ^[2] ;
• from October 19, 2012 to June 30, 2017 - Alexander Vladimirovich Serkin (Deputy General Director and Marketing Director) ^[3] ) (from July 1, 2017 - General Director of Glavkosmos Starting Services JSC, member of the Board of Directors of Cosmotras MCC ^[2] ) ;
• from 1997 to 18.10.2012 - founder - Andreev Vladimir Alekseevich ^[4] , from October 2012 to ... - President of the Cosmotras MKC ^[3] .

The head office of the company is located in Moscow.

Cosmotras involved:

• From Russia
  • GC Roscosmos - support and supervision, provision of installations and services in Baikonur
  • Russian Ministry of Defense - providing RS-20 missiles for conversion to the Dnieper, storing the RS-20 and launching
  • Askond CJSC (Moscow) - Dnipro Program Management
  • CJSC Rossobschemash Company (Moscow) - maintenance of the RS-20 liquidation program
  • FSUE Bureau of Special Engineering (St. Petersburg) - preservation and maintenance of the launcher
  • FSUE TsNII Mashinostroeniya (Moscow) - scientific and technical support for the program
  • FSUE Research and Production Association IMPULSE (St. Petersburg) - development and updating of launch control equipment
  • State Institution Moscow Plant of Electrical and Mechanical Equipment (Moscow) - modification of the control equipment of the missile control system
• Kazakhstan
  • NCA of Kazakhstan - state support and supervision
  • NK Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary - shareholder from the Kazakh side
  • GP INFRAKOS - participation in the Dnipro program at Baikonur
  • SE INFRAKOS-ECOS - environmental support for the project

Participated:

• Ukraine
  • GKAU - state support and supervision
  • SE "Design Bureau" South "named after M.K. Yangel" - development of a rocket
  • SE "Production Association" Southern Machine-Building Plant named after A. Makarov " ( Dnepropetrovsk ) - rocket production
  • Hartron-Arcos Research and Production Enterprise (Kharkov) - production of a missile control system

By the Decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of November 6, 1997 No. 1246 and the Government of the Russian Federation of October 5, 1998 No. 1156, the Cosmotras MKK was tasked with the creation and commercial operation of a launch system based on the technology of RS-20 intercontinental ballistic missiles. ^[five]

When creating a distribution of shares: from Russia - 50% of the shares, Ukraine - 50% of the shares.

In 1999, the first launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome was carried out .

In 2006, MKK Kosmotras received an ISO 9001: 2000 quality management certificate and an ISO 14001: 2004 environmental management certificate ^[6]

In 2006, the first launch from the Yasny spaceport was carried out. ^[7]

In 2011, the Republic of Kazakhstan, represented by the company JSC NC Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary ( Kazakhstan . Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary ), became a shareholder of MKK Kosmotras CJSC, becoming the owner of a 10% stake in MKK Kosmotras CJSC. Decision on the acceptance of the Kazakh side it was accepted into the shareholders of CJSC MKK Kosmotras in 2009. ^[8] At the same time, the Russian government commission on control over foreign investments gave permission to the Kazakhstan side to acquire up to 33% of Kosmotras shares. ^[9]

In 2011, the starting digging was frozen. In January 2012, President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev decided to continue the implementation of the Dnipro program, ^[10] in March 2012, reports appeared in the Russian press that, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, further implementation of the program was becoming economically disadvantageous and environmentally unsafe. ^[11] In September, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin stated that “the scheme of deposits of the three parties and the benefits that each side will receive are not transparent .” ^[12] In April 2013, negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian sides ended with an agreement by the Ukrainian side to change the share of financing and compensation for costs in the project. ^[9] In 2013, the State Property Fund of Ukraine left the list of shareholders, and at the beginning of 2014 Kharkiv PJSC Hartron owned 45% of the shares. ^[13] By December 2014, the main shareholder of the company, about 84% of the shares, was the head of the Kaskol group Sergey Nedoroslev with a group of investors, while the Ukrainian company PJSC Hartron, as well as a number of Russian companies or their the proportion was significantly reduced. About 10% of the shares are owned by NK Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary. ^[13]

In August 2016, the form of the company changed: the closed joint-stock company was reorganized into a limited liability company. ^[14]

In 2017, according to the decision of Roscosmos , Glavkosmos OJSC (part of Roscosmos State Corporation) and Cosmotras International Space Company LLC in April 2017 established the Glavkosmos Launch Services joint stock company. Glavkosmos owns 75 % of the shares of the created company, Kosmotras - 25%. The new Russian company becomes an operator providing commercial services for launching spacecraft (SC) using launch vehicles (LV) of the Soyuz-2 family and launch vehicles created on the basis of " RS-20 ", from Russian space core. ^[14]