ISC Kosmotras - Company Profile

Company Profile

Company principal office located in Moscow, Russia and since August, 1999 has subsidiary located in Kiev, Ukraine.

Kosmotras project members and their roles:

• Russia (50% stocks ownership)
  • Russian Federal Space Agency - state support and supervision, provision of facilities and services at Baikonur Cosmodrome
  • Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation – allocation of SS-18 assets to be converted into Dnepr-1 launch vehicles, SS-18 storage and Dnepr-1 standard launch operations
  • JSC ASKOND (Moscow) – primary entity for Dnepr Program management
  • JSC Rosobschemash Corporation (Moscow) - coordination of SS-18 elimination programs
  • FSUE Design Bureau of Special Machine Building (St. Petersburg) - primary entity for maintenance of launch complex and processing facilities
  • FSUE Central Scientific and Research Institute of Machine Building (Moscow) - scientific and technical support of the program
  • FSUE Scientific and Production Association “IMPULSE” (St. Petersburg) - development and upgrade of launch control and support equipment
  • State Enterprise Moscow Electrical and Mechanical Equipment Plant (Moscow) - modification of launch vehicle control system instrumentation
• Ukraine (50% stocks ownership)
  • National Space Agency of Ukraine - state support and supervision
  • State Design Bureau Yuzhnoye - primary design and development organization for the launch vehicle and the entire Dnepr rocket;
  • State Enterprise “Production Association Yuzniy Machine Building Plant” - primary manufacturing entity
  • Scientific and Production Enterprise KHARTRON-ARKOS (Kharkiv) - primary entity for launch vehicle control system
• Kazakhstan
  • Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources - state support and supervision
  • State Enterprise “INFRAKOS” (Baikonur) - participation in Dnepr Program activities at Baikonur Cosmodrome
    • State Enterprise “INFRAKOS-EKOS”, a subsidiary of “INFRAKOS” (Alma-Aty) – ecological support of the program.

In 2006 ISC Kosmotras became ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certified through ISO certification agency Bureau Veritas Quality International (BVQI). ISC Kosmotras received ISO 9001:2000 (Quality Management Systems) and ISO 14001:2004 (Environmental Management Systems) certificates.