Starchaser Industries is a privately held, high technology group of companies that specialises in the development, operation and commercialisation of space related products and services.

Starchaser Industries focuses on the space tourism and micro-satellite launch markets.

E'Prime Aerospace is a U.S. company committed to providing launch services.

Its customers are the United States Department of Defense (U.S. Air Force), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and other government and commercial entities including telecommunications, aerospace, security, and defense industries.

Rocketplane Global, Inc. (RGI)  is an USA company dedicated to commercial space flight.

Rocketplane is designing the XP suborbital vehicle.

Rocketplane was founded in 2001.

Explore Mars Inc. is a project-oriented, international non-profit organization passionately dedicated to awareness and action resulting in successful human exploration of Mars.

Explore Mars was created to promote science and technology innovation and education with a use for Mars Exploration. Through a series of technology innovation awards, scientific symposiums and workshops, Mars analog work, technology demonstrations, and other programs, we provide a platform for scientists and "citizen scientists" to engage in meaningful space exploration research and development in the private sector.

The new focus on private sector investment in space creates a unique opportunity for 'Explore Mars'. "Not only do we plan to promote the humans to Mars cause," said Explore Mars Executive Director, Chris Carberry, "but with the right mix of prizes, programming, and projects, we can make a significant contribution in advancing the cause of sending humans to Mars."

Explore Mars Inc. was formed in 2010.

The Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA) is the organisation in charge of administering and executing the Ecuadorian civilian space program and conducting scientific research on space and planetary sciences.

It is a non-profit NGO with 100% civilian operation capital through private funding and self-sustained. It was established on November 1, 2007 and includes the first Ecuadorian trained astronaut, Ronnie Nader, among its staff members.

The Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) is the Dutch expertise institute for space research.

The Institute develops and uses innovative technology for research in space, focusing on astrophysical research, Earth science and planetary research. SRON has a line of research into new and more sensitive sensors for X-rays and infrared radiation. SRON was founded in 1983 under the former names Stichting Ruimteonderzoek Nederland / Space Research Organisation Netherlands. SRON is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and has facilities in Utrecht and in Groningen.

SEAKR Engineering Inc. is a company dedicated to space electronics. 

SEAKR is a supplier of solid state recorders for spacecraft. The company is proposing as well space-based data processors, command and data handling units, satellite communication avionics, power supplies and reconfigurable computers.

SEAKR was founded in 1983.

Bristol Spaceplanes is a British company dedicated to spaceplane design.

It was founded in 1991 to realise low-cost access to space. Its clients include ESA, and its work has been used to further NASA studies on reusable launch vehicles and space tourism. Bristol Spaceplanes' designs have been the subject of feasibility studies from ESA and the UK Department of Trade and Industry.

The ESA's Centre in Harwell is a research centre located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Its focus is on three areas:

• ‘integrated applications’, which is the combined use of different space and terrestrial technologies, data and infrastructures to create new everyday applications;
• climate change modelling using data from space;
• and developing new technologies for the next era of planetary exploration, including robotics and innovative power sources that could be used on the Moon and Mars.

The Centre hosts the ESA Climate Office and also runs activities in the domains of Space Exploration. It supports the use of space technology in downstream domains through Integrated Applications, technology transfer activities and a Business Incubator.states.

The ESA research centre in the United Kingdom, opened on July 2009. It is based at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.

The ESA Harwell Centre is supporting as welll a Business Incubation Centre (BIC). It provides a unique opportunity for startup companies to access world class scientific facilities and research including that of the Diamond Light Source and STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) – home to its internationally renowned space science department RAL Space, the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron source ISIS and the Central Laser Facility.

Oxford nanoSystems are using emerging technologies to refine longstanding heat transfer techniques for consumer and industrial platforms.

It is a startup company based out of the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre in Harwell Oxford.