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Decades of conducting on-board and ground-based equipment development and information support have made NII TP a unique enterprise

Joint-Stock Company “Research Institute of Precision Instruments” (JSC “RIPI”) - IT-company, brings together professional developers and manufacturers of various radio engineering and software-hardware products. Today the abbreviation of the RIPI means skills and proficiency of our scientists, engineers and workers to design and manufacture various radio engineering equipment and software-hardware complexes that meet the highest requirements of the Russian aerospace industry.

We produce diverse hardware, which essentially supplements functionality of humans through constantly raising the intellectual level of its employees and modernizing facilities with emerging and advanced technologies.
We are good at producing various electronic instruments such as antennas, transmitters, receivers and computing facilities. Using these devices, we produce sophisticated hardware and software complexes. We have learnt to process high-rate information flows, which circulate in produced devices and complexes, using innovative methods of information security control.

Company management

 Ivanov Victor

Ivanov Victor

Director General

RIPI history

1952
The Research Institute of Precision Instruments (RIPI) (NII-648) was set up under the USSR Council of Ministers’ Decree #1662-606 of 4 April 1952 on the base of #499 plant in the city of Babushkin, located in the Moscow suburb
1952
1956
In 1956 the Institute started manufacturing equipment for the Russian space industry
1958
The NII-648 team of engineers and scientists developed the first ever command radio link “MRV-2M-BPU-DP” for the third Soviet artificial satellite
1958
1961
1961
The NII-648 specialists developed and produced the modernized radio command link “MRV-2M-BPU-DP”, which provided the flight of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the “Vostok” spacecraft on April 12, 1961
1965
The NII-648 began work on integrating the hybrid microcircuits into the space hardware
1965
1967
1967
On September 12, 1967, control procedures over the operation of artificial satellites of the “Cosmos” series began to be carried out by the first integrated command-program-trajectory radio link “Coral” in the VHF band
1969
On January 16, 1969, the world's first docking of the “Soyuz-4” and “Soyuz-5” manned spacecraft was conducting by means of the “Igla” system instruments
1969
1971
1971
On January 18, 1971, our Institute was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for the successful implementation of the five-year plan and excellent organization of new techniques production
1975
On July 17, 1975, the first ever docking and joint flight of the “Soyuz” spacecraft (USSR) and “Apollo” (USA) under the “EPAS” program was carried out, in which specialists from the “RIPI” took part
1975
1976
1976
On January 15, 1976, “RIPI” was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for its achievements in developing and fabrication of new techniques
1982
On December 28, 1982, for the first time in our country, global operational support and control services were carried out through a geostationary scientific relay-satellite via a command-and measurement-system (CMS)
1982
1983
1983
On September 17, 1983, “Kant” experiment was conducted at the “Salyut-7” orbital station using the first-ever “Kant” spaceborne synthetic aperture radar
1986
On February 20, 1986, the base block of the “MIR” orbital station equipped with radio engineering complexes for the “ Igla” MMS and “Cube” CMS was placed into orbit
1986
1996
1996
On February 19, 1996, “Gonets-D1” the first communications satellite, equipped with the “Sadko” radio engineering complex was launched
1998
On November 20, 1998, with the launch of the Russian “Zarya” module, the construction of the International space station (ISS), equipped with the “Kurs” MMS and the “Komparus” automated CMS began
1998
2001
2001
On December 10, 2001, the “Meteor-3M” hydrometeorological and oceanographic satellite, equipped with “Komparus” CMS equipment was launched
2006
On June 15, 2006, the launch of the “Resurs-DK1” ERS satellite with the “Komparus” CMS instruments and high-data-rate communications link equipment onboard, operating together with “Komparus” ground-based control complex and and “Resurs-DK” ground-based complex for acquisition and processing data, was launched
2006
2009
2009
On September 17, 2009, “Meteor-M” #1 hydrometeorological satellite with “Severyanin” spaceborne radar complex onboard was launched
2010
JSC “RIPI” became a part of “Russian Space Systems” (RSS) Holding Company, the largest in the country and the world's leading manufacturer of precision instruments, software and electronics for space
2010
2013
2013
On June 25, 2013, “Resurs-P” ERS spacecraft, equipped with the “Komparus” CMS onboard equipment and high-data-rate communications link equipment, operating together with the “Komparus” ground-based control complex and and “Resurs-P” ground-based complex for acquisition and processing data, was launched
2014
On April 25, 2014, “Kurs-NA” the third-generation system for search, rendezvous and docking of satellites was put into operation
2014
2015
2015
JSC “RIPI” within an integrated framework of JSC “Russian Space Systems” is a competence center for space equipment development and manufacture based on low-temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) technology
2016
The “RIPI” specialists developed a Mobile Receiving/Transmitting Complex (MRTC) designed to work with ERS data
2016
2017
2017
Specialists of JSC “RIPI” designed the Integrated Geographically Distributed ERS information system (IGDERSIS)
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