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Reshetniov keeps full-cycle spacecraft certification
Reshetniov has renewed its quality management certificate, confirming it can develop, build, test, service, and support spacecraft in orbit.
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Satellite manufacturer Reshetniov has renewed its quality management system certificate after a scheduled audit, preserving formal confirmation that it can handle a spacecraft through the full cycle — from development to in-orbit support.
The audit was carried out by the Center for Certification of Rocket and Space Technology. According to the source, experts inspected the company’s design and production divisions across all stages of spacecraft creation and confirmed compliance with industry rules and GOST standards.
The certificate explicitly covers development, manufacturing, testing, maintenance, and operational support for space complexes and systems. That means customers are dealing not with a single workshop or production segment, but with an enterprise certified to take responsibility for the entire chain of work.
For Reshetniov, that matters given the scale of its backlog and history. Over 67 years, the Zheleznogorsk-based company has built more than 1,300 spacecraft for communications, television broadcasting, relay, navigation, and geodesy, and more than 40 multi-satellite systems and complexes have been created on that basis.
The source notes that in Russia’s space hardware market, where contracts often run long, quality control and process traceability matter as much as launch itself. Certification remains a basic requirement for both state procurement and export projects, especially for a serial manufacturer, because losing it would make it harder to close new programs and maintain existing supply lines.
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In practical terms, the renewed certificate helps keep Reshetniov in place as one of the sector’s key players for upcoming programs. In space manufacturing, those confirmations can matter as much as high-profile announcements: they show a plant can not only assemble a spacecraft, but support it across its full lifecycle.
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