Space Angels Network is an angel investing network which connects investors and entrepreneurs to encourage private investment in commercial space, aerospace, and aviation startups.

Its members typically invest in early-stage companies which are not yet ready for venture capital.

By focusing on industry instead of geography, the subject-matter expertise of both the management team and members allows Space Angels Network to evaluate deals that would never have made it past the initial screening of more traditional angel groups. Investments are typically companies with experienced teams pursuing large markets with a unique product, service, or business model in the following fields:

• Satellite (telecom, GPS navigation, geospatial imaging, weather observation)
• Transportation (vehicles, tourism, platforms, components, services, operations infrastructure)
• Biomedical & life sciences
• Microgravity research
• Space habitats
• Space debris removal & satellite refueling
• Manufacturing, mining, and construction
• Space energy
• UAVs and Aircraft

FFD (Final Frontier Design) has been developing space suits since 2006. Our latest, 3rd generation garment features a single pressure layer, combining high-strength materials and low-torque mobility joints in a safe, light-weight, cost-efficient suit designed specifically for the needs of civilian space access.

OPALS (Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science) is an optical communication in outer space experiment developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the International Space Station.

It is testing the potential for using an optical laser to transmit data, at much higher rates than traditional space-based RF communications, to Earth from space. It was launched to the orbital station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on 18 April 2014, as part of the unpressurized payload cargo of the SpaceX CRS-3 Dragon spacecraft.

The mission has been considered a success as of December 2014. There were two major accomplishments:

• A massive speed increase taking 3.5 seconds to download a video that traditionally would have taken 10 minutes.
• Ability to re-acquire tracking after signal was lost due to cloud cover.

Antwerp Space develops systems, which initially accommodated the growing needs of the European space program and have found application in a broad range of commercial space applications worldwide. Antwerp Space provides expertise and system solutions for broadband access systems via satellites, satellite ground control stations for spacecraft control and reception of data from earth observation satellites and test systems used during the integration of spacecraft.

Antwerp Space designs and sells

• High performance demodulators for
• Earth Observation,
• Satellite Telemetry, Command and Ranging
• MF-TDMA DVB-RCS burst
• High performance RF converters

Antwerp Space is a member of the OHB AG Group and belonging to OHB's Space Systems business unit.

Stevenson Astrosat is a British commercial astronautics and technology integration company. It is based in Scotland.

Utilising space based imagery and data for business decision makers is our main focus. We use multiple space based systems and combine the data with our proprietry or licensed technology and scientific models to provide clients with the intelligence they need to make critical choices in real time or when planning into the future.

We also develop technologies to visualise and track assets as they are dipersed throughout the globe. 

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is a telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

The VLT consists of four individual telescopes, each with a primary mirror 8.2 m across, which are generally used separately but can be used together to achieve very high angular resolution. The four separate optical telescopes are known as Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun, which are all words for astronomical objects in the Mapuche language. The telescopes form an array which is complemented by four movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture.

The VLT operates at visible and infrared wavelengths. Each individual telescope can detect objects roughly four billion times fainter than can be detected with the naked eye, and when all the telescopes are combined, the facility can achieve an angular resolution of about 0.001 arc-second. This is equivalent to roughly 100 metres (330 feet) resolution at the distance of the Moon. Unfortunately this means the VLT cannot be used to directly image the Apollo Moon landing sites as the largest objects left behind during each mission would only have been abou

With 56 offices in Europe, we operate as an international engineering company for our clients worldwide. As a strategic partner, we offer our clients global project support while guaranteeing a consistent level of service. In order to offer specific services to dedicated local markets, we understand the need to keep a local dimension in order to better serve specific markets.

1994 established in Ulm, Germany
2006 acquired by Adecco Group (Fortune 500 company)
2010 integration of encad GmbH; engineering service provider in Germany
2012 launch of euro engineering in France and Italy

NEE-01 Pegaso is an Ecuadorian technology demonstration satellite, and Ecuador's first satellite launched to space.

Built by the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA), it is a nanosatellite of the single-unit CubeSat class. The spacecraft's instruments include a dual visible and infrared camera which allows the spacecraft to take pictures and transmit live video from space.

The satellite operated normally until 23 May 2013 wnen there was a collison with a debris cloud. After the incident, the satellite was found to be "spinning wildly over two of its axes" and unable to communicate with its ground station. While efforts were made to reestablish control of Pegaso, on 28 August 2013 the decision was made by EXA and the Ecuadorian government to declare the satellite as lost.

Interorbital Systems Corporation (IOS) is an American aerospace company based in Mojave, California.

It was founded in 1996. Interorbital Systems is working on a line of launch vehicles aimed at winning the Google Lunar X Prize. The company was also a competitor for both the Ansari X-Prize  and America's Space Prize. 

Interorbital Systems' prototypes are all designed to be amphibious (capable of launch from land or sea). Although IOS currently tests its spacecraft at the Mojave Airport & Spaceport and conducts testbed launches from the Mojave Desert, it plans to develop and implement a method for launching directly from the water without a launch platform. 

The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), is a Dubai government entity that was established by law in 2006, as part of the United Arab Emirates' national initiative to promote scientific innovation, with the emphasis on space technology and promoting sustainable development.

EIAST was established in order to promote advanced research and technological innovation, more specifically satellite technology; to build a well established internationally competitive base for human skills development; to position Dubai and the United Arab Emirates as a hub for space technology development internationally; to optimize the potential of EIAST satellite programs, DubaiSat-1 and DubaiSat-2, through broadening their applications; and lastly to provide support to decision makers in all sectors through application of its specialist skills.

In order for EIAST to achieve its goal of using space technologies and applications effectively, the institution has pursued four programs:

• research and development of outer space,
• satellite manufacturing and system development,
• Earth observation from satellite images,
• and ground station services and support to other satellites.