ISC Kosmotras

Infobox Company
name = ISC Kosmotras

type = Joint stock company
foundation = 1997
location_city = Moscow
location_country = Russia
industry = Commercial spaceflight
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homepage = [http://www.kosmotras.ru/ www.kosmotras.ru]
intl = yes

The International Space Company Kosmotras or ISC Kosmotras ( _ru. ЗАО Международная космическая компания “Космотрас” [Can be confused with company [http://www.cosmotrans.ru/ Kosmotrans] ( _ru. ФГУП НПФ КОСМОТРАНС) working in Baikonur] ) is a joint project, between Russia, Ukraine, and the Kazakhstan, established in 1997. It developed and now operates a commercial expendable launch system using the Dnepr rocket. The Dnepr is a converted Soviet era SS-18 ICBM decommissioned as part of the START Treaty. ISC Kosmotras conducts Dnepr launches at both Baikonur Cosmodrome and at a new Yasny launch base in Dombarovskiy, Russia. [cite web | url = http://www.kosmotras.ru/20002.htm#inf23 | title = On Dnepr LV Next Launch | publisher = ISC Kosmotras]

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: [cite web|url=http://snebulos.mit.edu/projects/reference/launch_vehicles/DNEPR/Dnepr_User_Guide.pdf|title=DNEPR User's guide|publisher=MIT|date=November 2001]
* 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 (Kharkov) - 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. [cite web | url = http://www.kosmotras.ru/20002.htm#inf22 | title = ISC Kosmotras Awarded ISO Certificates | publisher = ISC Kosmotras]

References

External links

* [http://www.kosmotras.ru/ ISC Kosmotras]