Russian Space Agency to annex Energiya-RSC, other space firms

The end of the independence of the old 'Korolyov Bureau' -- maybe now that
the government's starvation policy has brought it to its knees, its
submission
will allow a more adequate level of funding.

Will the loss of economic and corporate independence make foreign
partners more likely, or less likely, to put money into Klipper?

Where will Roskosmos get the money to buy out the minority
stockholders, or will it bother to?

The other groups listed, as far as I know, are already wholly
government-owned
entities.

JimO
www.jamesoberg.com



Russian aerospace companies plan merger

MOSCOW, September 1 21:10 [1710 gmt](RIA Novosti) - Russian Space Agency
Roscosmos and leading private and state-owned aerospace companies intend to
merge into an association, a Roscosmos spokesman said Thursday.

"An agreement and articles on establishing a new body are scheduled to be
presented for approval by the heads of companies at a general meeting hosted
by Roscosmos on September 9, " the spokesman said.

"RSC Energia, NPO Energomash, OAO Kvant, KB Khimavtomatika, NPO
Lavochkin, the Teplotekhnika Research Institute, and several other companies
are planning to join the association," the spokesman said.

On 2005-09-01, Jim Oberg wrote:

The end of the independence of the old 'Korolyov Bureau' -- maybe now that
the government's starvation policy has brought it to its knees, its
submission will allow a more adequate level of funding.

(...)

Jim - is there any chance you could run down for those of us watching at
home what all these agencies *are*? It's very confusing...

--
-Andrew Gray

Jim - is there any chance you could run down for those of us watching at
home what all these agencies *are*? It's very confusing...

There was/is an overview at
http://www.fas.org/spp/guide/russia/index.html but (a) it hasn't been
updated in many years, and (b) the most important page for this post
("Contractors") seems to be missing in action.

The page at
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/...a/industry.htm seems to
be a bit more complete.

I also have a manuscript here called "The Dark Side of the Moon Race:
Political Decisions Behind the Soviet Lunar Programs", Peter Gorin,
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 28th
National Convention, 14-17 November 1996 which has a nice summary of
the relevant organizations in the 1960's, as well as a discussion of
some of the politics then. However, I don't know whether this
article, or other similar ones, can be found on the web or in libraries.

Does anyone have something a bit more helpful?