Named after Semyon Lavochkin who was this company’s head designer, NPO Lavochkin is a Russian satellite manufacturer who also engaged in aeronautical design and engineering and manufactures the Fregat space booster. The Russians have used this spacecraft as their landing stage for lunar missions such as Luna-16, as the braking stage to place Fobos-2 into orbit around Mars, and as an escape stage to launch units into interplanetary trajectories, such as the Venus and Mars Express probes.
Now, according to the publication New Europe: The European Weekly, Gregory Polishchuck, who is the general director of the Lavochkin research and production corporation, has said, “We are to launch a weather monitoring satellite, the Elektro, in 2008. In fact, a single system of weather monitoring satellites is being created by Russia, the US and Europe.” He made the statements at the MAKS-2007 air show just outside Moscow in Zhukovsky.
The original Elektro was planned to be a thirdgen Soviet meteorological system, but flew only once in 1994 and could not be put to use with the whole project finally being canceled.
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