Progress Rocket Space Centre
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Company type | Joint-stock company |
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Industry | Space science Aerospace research |
Predecessor | TsSKB-Progress |
Founded | 12 April 1996 |
Headquarters | , |
Revenue | $593 million[1] (2017) |
$26.5 million[1] (2017) | |
$21.7 billion[1] (2017) | |
Total assets | $1.69 billion[1] (2017) |
Total equity | $488 million[1] (2017) |
Number of employees | 17,703 |
Parent | Roskosmos[2] |
Website | samspace |
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The Progress Rocket Space Centre (Russian: Ракетно-космический центр «Прогресс»), formerly known as TsSKB-Progress (Russian: ЦСКБ-Прогресс), is a Russian joint-stock company under the jurisdiction of Roscosmos State Corporation responsible for space science and aerospace research.[3] It was the developer of the famous Soyuz-FG rocket that was used for crewed space flight, as well as the Soyuz-U that was used for launching uncrewed probes.[4]