Progress Rocket Space Centre

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Progress Rocket Space Centre
Company typeJoint-stock company
IndustrySpace science
Aerospace research
PredecessorTsSKB-Progress
Founded12 April 1996
Headquarters,
Revenue$593 million (2017)
$26.5 million (2017)
$21.7 billion (2017)
Total assets$1.69 billion (2017)
Total equity$488 million (2017)
Number of employees
17,703 
ParentRoskosmos
Websitesamspace.ru

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. 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.

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