Lavochkin

Type State-owned company

Key people: Semyon Lavochkin, designer
Products: Spacecraft
Website: http://www.laspace.ru

NPO Lavochkin (also called Lavochkin Research and Production Association or shortly Lavochkin Association, LA) is a Russian aerospace company. It is a major player in the Russian space program, being the developer and manufacturer of the Fregat upper stage, as well as interplanetary probes such as Phobos Grunt. Currently it is headed by Georgi Polishuk.

Overview

The company develops and manufactures spacecraft such as the Fregat and Ikar rocket upper stages, satellites and interplanetary probes. It is a contractor for a number of military programs, such as the Oko early warning satellite, Prognoz and Araks programmes as well as the civilian program Kupon. The company's most notable project at the moment is the Phobos Grunt sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. NPO Lavochkin has also developed the Elektro-L series of new-generation weather satellites, as well as the Navigator standardised satellite platform, which will serve as the basis for several future Russian satellites.

History

The company was founded in 1937 as the Lavochkin Aircraft Design Bureau (OKB-301) was a Soviet aircraft design bureau (OKB), now defunct, named for its head designer, Semyon Lavochkin. It gained distinction for its family of piston-engined fighter aircraft during World War II, and later shifted to missile designs. The bureau was closed in 1960 upon its head designer's death, but was later re-opened as the NPO Lavochkin to work on interplanetary probe designs for Luna sample return program, the Lunokhod program, Vega program, Phobos program etc.

Aircraft

LaGG-1
LaGG-3
La-5
La-7 "Fin"
La-9 "Fritz"
La-11 "Fang"
La-15 "Fantail"
La-17
La-120
La-126

La-130
La-132
La-134
La-138
La-140
La-150
La-152
La-154
La-156

La-160
La-168
La-174
La-176
La-180
La-190
La-200
La-205 is V-300, a SAM for S-25 air defense system
La-250 Anakonda

Rockets and Missiles

Burya
Fregat

Surface-to-Air Missiles

S-25 Berkut (SA-1 "Guild")
S-75 Dvina (SA-2 "Guideline")

Spacecraft

Astron
Lunokhod
Lunokhod 1
Lunokhod 2
Venera Venus missions
Sputnik 7
Venera 1
Sputnik 19
Sputnik 20
Sputnik 21
Cosmos 27
Venera 2
Venera 3
Venera 4
Venera 5
Venera 6
Venera 7
Venera 8
Cosmos 482
Venera 9
Venera 10
Venera 11
Venera 12
Venera 13
Venera 14
Venera 15
Venera 16
Vega missions
Vega 1
Vega 2
Mars-96 Mars mission
Oko
Phobos-Grunt mission
Luna-Glob mission

Babakin Space Centre
Yuri Koptev

William H Mott, Robert B Sheldon, L Philip Sheldon (2000). Laser Satellite Communication: The Third Generation. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 132. ISBN 1-56720-329-9
GlobalSecurity.org - http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/russia/npolav.htm

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