OHB-System AG has been working very successfully with Russian engineering office POLYOT, Omsk, since the beginning of the nineties. Entailing the use of Russian launch vehicles for various small OHB satellites, these joint activities culminated in the establishment of a company named COSMOS International Satellitenstart GmbH. Developed by POLYOT back in the sixties, the COSMOS launch vehicles have proven themselves in over 760 missions with a reliability rate of greater than 97%. The COSMOS launch vehicle is ideal for transporting small satellites and payloads of up to 1,500 kg to low-orbit positions.