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Astrolab Inc.
Astrolab, Inc. provides the military, space, commercial and other electronic industries with state-of-the-art RF and microwave components.
Active Space Technologies
Active Space Technologies (Actividades Aeroespaciais Lda) offers services in Thermal and Structural Analysis, and performs R&D in Optoelectronics, Instrumentation, and Technology Transfer.
INVAP
INVAP S.E. is an Argentine high-technology company dedicated to the design, integration, construction and delivery of high complexity equipment, plants and devices.
INVAP has shown its a manufacturer of satellites, payloads, and ground stations; It developed the SAC satellite family ("Satelites de Aplicación Científica") for the Argentine space agency CONAE. INVAP masters the full life cycle capabilities, from design and development through mission control and operational support.
Pumpkin Inc.
Pumpkin Inc. is an American company developping hardware and software products for the CubeSat platform.
IHI Corporation
IHI Corporation, formerly known as Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd is a Japanese company which produces ships, aero-engines, turbochargers for automobiles, industrial machines, suspension bridges and other transport-related machinery.
Space products:
- S-type Sounding Rocket (S-210, S-310, S-520, SS-520)
- M-V Launch Vehicle
- GX Launch Vehicle (Partner in Galaxy Express Corporation)
- Epsilon Launch Vehicle
- SRB-A solid rocket booster for H-IIA/H-IIB Launch Vehicle
State Space Agency of Ukraine
The State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) is the Ukrainian government agency responsible for space policy and programs.
It is a civil body in charge of co-ordinating the efforts of government installations, research, and industrial companies (mostly state-owned). Several space-related institutes and industries are directly subordinated to the SSAU.
Zenit (rocket family)
Zenit is a family of space launch vehicles designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau of Ukraine.
Zenit was built in the 1980s for two purposes: as a liquid rocket booster for the Energia rocket and, equipped with a second stage, as a stand-alone rocket. Moreover Zenit was planned to take over manned spaceship launches from Soyuz, but these plans were abandoned after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Zenit-3SL is launched by the Sea Launch consortium's floating launch platform in the Pacific Ocean and Zenit-2 is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Yuzhmash
A.M. Makarov Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant, or PA Yuzhmash is a Ukrainian manufacturer of space rockets, agricultural equipment, buses, trolley buses and trams, wind turbines, and satellites.
It is a large state-owned company located in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Over 65 years, four-generation of carrier rockets and several types of spacecraft have been created.
uzhmash made an ecological two-stage carrier rocket under the title «Zenit» to realize the international «Sea Launch» project.
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, located in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, is a designer of satellites and rockets, and formerly of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
The company is in close co-operation with the Yuzhmash manufacturer company also situated in Dnipropetrovsk. Yuzhmash is the main manufacturer of the models designed by Yuzhnoye Design Bureau.
Sun Space and Information Systems Ltd
Sunspace is a provider of small and medium-sized satellites and related systems and solutions to the local and international aerospace market.
SunSpace has its origins in the SUNSAT satellite programme. SUNSAT, South Africa's first satellite, was developed locally, and launched in 1999 by the American space agency NASA.