All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Electromechanics (VNIIEM) (russian: ВНИИЭМ) is a research institute based in Moscow, Russia. It is currently a

Roscosmos The State Space Corporation "Roscosmos" (russian: Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности «Роскосмос»), commonly known simply as Roscosmos (russian: Роскосмос) ...

subsidiary. VNIIEM designs and builds automated satellites for ecological, geological, meteorological observation. It developed the

Meteor A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are defined as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide. Objects smaller than this are classified as mi ...

and Resurs-O series of satellites and operates them in concert with the Planeta Design Bureau. VNIIEM developed the Geosynchronous Orbit Meteorological Satellite. In addition, the institute has developed the control and navigation systems, as well as analog computers, used on meteorological satellites.

Andronik Iosifyan Andronik Gevondovich Iosifyan (russian: Андроник Гевондович Иосифьян; born 21 July 1905 in Tsmakahogh, Nagorno Karabakh, died 13 April 1993 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet engineer of Armenian ethnicity in the field ...

was the first director of VNIIEM.

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