Progress State Research and Production Rocket Space Center
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| Industry | Aerospace |
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| Founded | 12 April 1996 |
| Headquarters | Samara, Russia |
| Parent | Roscosmos |
| Website | samspace |
The Progress Rocket Space Centre (Russian: Ракетно-космический центр «Прогресс»), formelly known as TsSKB-Progress (Russian: ЦСКБ-Прогресс), is a Russian join-stock company under the jurisdiction of Roscosmos State Corporation responsible for space science and aerospace research. It is the developer of the famous Soyuz-FG rocket used for manned space flight, as well as Soyuz-U used for launching unmanned probes.
Progress Centre is the developer and manufacturer of the Soyuz FG series of launch vehicles used for human spaceflight launches, and the Soyuz-U series used for robotic spacecraft launches. Commercial marketing of these launch vehicles is handled by the company Starsem. TsSKB-Progress' satellite products include the Foton and Foton-M science satellite series, the Yantar military satellites and the Resurs DK Earth resource satellite.
The company's main production facilities are located in the city of Samara. They include a design bureau, a large R-7 factory called Progress and an affiliate design bureau KB Foton. Up to 25,000 people work in the Progress factory; of them, 5,000 work in rocket and satellite systems, and 360 work on the R-7 production line at any given time. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the factory has also diversified into machine tools, vodka and sweets.
TsSKB Progress is currently leading the development Rus-M, a new launcher intended for launching the Federation (spacecraft), the manned spacecraft that will eventually replace the current Soyuz spacecraft.
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