Roscosmos

Roscosmos is the State Corporation for Space Activities of the Russian Federation, responsible for Russian space flights, cosmonautics programmes and aerospace research. It began as the Russian Space Agency in 1992, inheriting most of the Soviet space programme after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and took its present form in 2015 when it merged with the United Rocket and Space Corporation to bring the Russian space industry back under state ownership. It is headquartered in Moscow, operates the Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny cosmodromes together with the Russian Space Forces, and oversees the Soyuz crewed spacecraft and Progress cargo ships that serve the International Space Station. RKK Energia, builder of Soyuz and Progress, is one of its enterprises.