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'''Glavcosmos''' ({{lang-ru|Главкосмос}}) is a Russian [[Engineering:Launch service provider|launch service provider]] and subsidiary of the state corporation [[Company:Roscosmos|Roscosmos]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Russian Launch Services Operator Eyes Lunar Mission in Early 2020s|url=https://www.inverse.com/article/35303-russian-rocket-launching-operator-glavkosmos-plans-moon-missions|accessdate=14 August 2017|work=Inverse|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Glavkosmos seeks to become a major smallsat launch provider - SpaceNews.com|url=http://spacenews.com/glavkosmos-seeks-to-become-a-major-smallsat-launch-provider/|accessdate=14 August 2017|work=SpaceNews.com|date=20 June 2017}}</ref>

It was established in 1985 under the [[Organization:Ministry of General Machine Building|Ministry of General Machine Building]] (MOM) as the [[Place:Soviet Union|Soviet Union's]] contract agency for space affairs by the government of [[Biography:Mikhail Gorbachev|Mikhail Gorbachev]] appointing Alexander Dunayev as its first director.  Although it was originally envisioned to command all [[Astronomy:Soviet space program|Soviet space activities]] it worked more as a marketing and coordinating body than an executive agency.<ref>{{cite book |title=Russia in space |last=Harvey |first=Brian |coauthors= |year= 2001 |publisher= Springer |location= |isbn= 1-85233-203-4 |page=277 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DrgvjPsfwhsC&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=glavcosmos&source=bl&ots=sqbA0diMwc&sig=Oq6AsLIqSJAjtMXK4g5XC4pvjWo&hl=es&ei=PhEHSvKKAYOJtgf-5rz5Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#PPA276,M1 |accessdate=2009-05-10 }}</ref> The United States imposed sanctions on the company in the early 1990s, after it agreed to provide space launch vehicles for the [[Astronomy:Indian Space Research Organisation|Indian Space Research Organisation]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Malik|first1=Priyanjali|title=India's Nuclear Debate: Exceptionalism and the Bomb|date=2014|publisher=[[Company:Routledge|Routledge]]|isbn=9781317809838|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dv8jAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT174|language=en}}</ref>

In Soviet times it was the prime authority for implementing co-operative agreements with foreign bodies, with activities including commercial utilisation of Soviet systems and flying foreign cosmonauts aboard Soviet spacecraft. After the breakup of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Russian Federal Space Agency it is concerned with converting military technology to civil applications and commercialisation of Russian space technology.<ref>{{cite web | title=Glavcosmos (Russian Federation), CIVIL SPACE ORGANISATIONS - NATIONAL AGENCIES | url=http://www.janes.com/articles/Janes-Space-Systems-and-Industry/Glavcosmos-Russian-Federation.html | work= | publisher=Jane's Information Group | year=2008 | accessdate=2009-05-10}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Astronomy:Soviet space program|Soviet space program]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{in lang|ru}} [http://www.glavkosmos.ru/ GLAVCOSMOS home page in Russian]

{{Public sector space agencies}}

[[Category:Space program of the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Companies (Astronomy)]]
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