Joint Stock Company "Russian Space Systems" is a leading Russian enterprise in design, production, author's supervision and operation of space information systems.

Principal business areas:

• Сreation, development and use of GLONASS global navigation system;
• Space systems for search and rescue, geodesy, meteorological support, communication and rebroadcasting, planets and other space objects remote sensing, support of space scientific studies;
• On-board and optoelectronic equipment and systems for special purpose and civilian spacecrafts ground-based ERS data reception sites, automated spacecrafts, launch vehicles and upper stages control facilities;
• Launch site measurement facilities;
• Automated resources and facilities control, measurement and monitoring systems.

  JSC "Russian Space Systems"  is the head body of Russian space agency in matters of:

• Design, development and intended use of GLONASS space system, including auxiliary functionality, end-user equipment and ground-based control facility;
• Unified Russian Federation navigation and timing support system;
• Unified state ground-based automated spacecraft control complex retrieval, processing and dissemination of Earth's remote sensing information system;
• National segment of the COSPAS-SARSAT Search and Rescue System;
• Federal, industrial and regional systems of critically important facilities and hazardous shipments monitoring systems;
• Onboard relay complexes;
• Design and implementation of basic and critical navigation, control, monitoring and Earth's remote sensing technologies.

JSC "Russian Space Systems" is a participant in crucial Russian cosmonautics projects, as well as major international projects:

• “Sea Launch” seaborne launch facility control and telemetry reception tools;
• “Astron”, “Granat”, “Interball”, “Specter” international space study programs spacecrafts control and data transmission equipment;
• Onboard control and telemetry equipment for International Space Station service module, ground-based station and freighter crafts control facility, television transmission system;
• Ground-based international project spacecrafts control facilities.

The company possesses unique experience in design, production, project supervision and operation of space and ground-based systems of different purposes. Systems, instruments and equipment we create are extremely robust. Combination of creativity and long-term (over 60 years) experience guarantees our partners efficient productive collaboration bringing mutual interests to reality.

Primary customers for JSC "Russian Space Systems" production and design are traditionally Russian Ministry of Defence, Russian Federal Space agency, Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Agency, Ministry for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Response and other institutions. Financing sources – state programs: Federal Russian space program for 2006 – 1015, Federal “Global navigation system” special purpose program, State armaments program, etc. Orders within these programs are finances both directly by government agencies and by space industry enterprises like: Lavochkin Association, LA, JSC Information Satellite Systems - Reshetnev Company, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, VNIIEM, NPO mashinostroyeniya, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, Russian Satellite Communications Company, Progress State Research and Production Space Centre, OJSC Research Institute of Precision Instruments.