Space industry in Russia

The space industry in the Russian Federation, as of 2006, comprised over 100 companies, and employed 250,000 people. Most of the companies were descendants of Soviet design bureau and state production companies. The industry entered a deep crisis following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with its fullest effect occurring in the last years of the 1990s. Funding of the space program declined by 80% and the industry lost a large part of its work force before recovery began in the early 2000s. Many companies survived by creating joint-ventures with foreign firms and marketing their products abroad.

In the mid-2000s, as part of the general improvement in the economy, funding of the country's space program was substantially increased and a new ambitious federal space plan was introduced, resulting in a great boost to the industry. Its largest company was RKK Energiya, the main crewed space flight contractor. Leading launch vehicle producers were Khrunichev and TsSKB-Progress. The largest satellite developer was ISS Reshetnev, while NPO Lavochkin was the main developer of interplanetary probes.

As of 2013, a major reorganization of the Russian space industry was underway, with increased state supervision and involvement of the ostensibly private companies formed in the early 1990s following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.