S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia

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S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (also known as RKK Energiya) is a Russian manufacturer of spacecraft and space station components. It is named after Sergei Korolev and has been known successively as: Special Design Bureau number 1 of R&D Institute number 88 (Russian: or OKB-1 of NII-88), TsKBEM, NPO Energia and S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.

16 May 1946 R&D Institute of Jet Weapon of Ministry of Defense of the USSR was established in Kaliningrad (now Korolev, Moscow region), also known as NII-88 (later TsNIIMash RKA, now RKK "Energia").

Its products have included the R-7 rocket, the Energia launcher and the Progress spacecraft.

External link

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

See also

• Aerospace manufacturer
• Kliper
• Parom
• Nikolai Sevastianov
• Soyuz spacecraft

 

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