Reaction Engines Limited (REL) is a British aerospace company based in Oxfordshire, England.

The company conducts research into space propulsion systems, centred around the development of the Skylon re-usable SSTO spaceplane. The three founders worked together on the HOTOL project, funding for which was withdrawn in 1988, largely due to significant technical obstacles.

The AstroMast® is a self-deploying structure for spacecraft. It is a versatile product space proven with more than 50 successful deployments on programs such as MILSTAR, DMSP, Olympus, Mars Odyssey, GOES, and INSAT. It provides high performance in a coilable longeron mast and is available in a variety of sizes and configurations to suit your specific program needs.

The AstroMast is an extremely stiff and lightweight structure that can be manufactured in deployed diameters from 15 to 75 centimeters and as low as six kilograms mass.

Organisation: Astro Aerospace

Astro Aerospace is a business venture of Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.

Since 1958, Astro Aerospace has been creating technologies used in space deployable structures. Astro Aerospace, is located in the USA, in Carpinteria and Goleta, California. Astro Aerospace specializes in a diverse array of products from reflectors to antennas to extendible and foldable structures.

The University of Central Florida, UCF, is a public research university located in the USA, in Orlando, Florida. 

The University of Central Florida opened in 1968 as Florida Technological University, with the goal of providing highly-trained personnel to support the Kennedy Space Center. the university's academic scope had expanded to encompass other disciplines, "Florida Tech" was renamed the University of Central Florida in 1978.

UCF is a space-grant university and has made noted research contributions in several scientific fields.

UCF has a satellite campus at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.

the Center for Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame (CANDU) is part of the Physics Department, which is in the College of Science at Notre Dame. Notre Dame is located in the USA, Northern Indiana near the city of South Bend. 

The center has research projects in the following areas:

• Cosmic Radiation and Solar Flares 
• T Tauri Stars, Extrasolar Planets, Proto-planetary disks
• Cosmology
• Computational Astrophysics
• Experimental Astrophysics
• General Relativity
• Gravitational Microlensing
• Stellar Nucleosynthesis

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) is a NASA program to coordinate the delivery of crew and cargo to the International Space Station by private companies.

The program was announced on January 18, 2006. NASA has suggested that "Commercial services to ISS will be necessary through at least 2015."
COTS must be distinguished from the related Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program. COTS relates to the development of the vehicles, CRS to the actual deliveries. COTS involves a number of Space Act Agreements, with NASA providing milestone-based payments. COTS does not involve binding contracts.

The Cygnus spacecraft is an unmanned resupply spacecraft being developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation as part of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) developmental program.

It is designed to transport supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) following the retirement of the American Space Shuttle in 2011. Since August 2000 unmanned ISS resupply missions have been regularly flown by Russian Progress spacecraft, as well as by the European Automated Transfer Vehicle, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle, and the SpaceX Dragon. With the Cygnus spacecraft, NASA seeks to increase its partnerships with domestic commercial aviation and aeronautics industry.

The Antares rocket, known in early development as Taurus II, is an expendable launch system being developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation.

It is designed to launch payloads weighing up to 5,000 kg (11,000 lb) into low-Earth orbit. It is scheduled to make its first flight on 20 April 2013.
NASA awarded to Orbital a Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract in 2008 to demonstrate delivery of cargo to the International Space Station. For these COTS missions Orbital intends to use Antares to launch its Cygnus spacecraft. In addition, Antares will compete for small-to-medium missions.

On Dec. 12, 2011 Orbital Sciences renamed the launch vehicle "Antares" from the previous designation of Taurus II, after the star of the same name name.

The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters is a charter which provides for the charitable retasked acquisition of and transmission of space satellite data to relief organizations in the event of major disasters.

Initiated by the European Space Agency and the French space agency CNES after the UNISPACE III conference held in Vienna, Austria in July 1999, it officially came into operation on November 1, 2000 after the Canadian Space Agency signed onto the charter on October 20, 2000. Their troika of space assets was, respectively, ERS and ENVISAT, SPOT and Fomosat, and RADARSAT. 

The assorted satellite assets of various private, national, and international space agencies provide for humanitarian coverage which is wide albeit contingent. First activated for floods in northeast France in December 2001,[1] the Charter has since brought space assets into play for numerous earthquakes, oil spills, forest fires, tsunamis, major snowfalls, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and landslides.

The International Charter aims at providing a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters through Authorized Users. Each member agency has committed resources to support the provisions of the Charter and thus is helping to mitigate the effects of disasters on human life and property.

DMC International Imaging (DMCii) is a company specialised in Earth imaging services. It provides: satellite imagery, archived data, related project services, and manages the DMC satellite constellation.

The company manages the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC), a constellation of Earth observation satellites. It is a satellite constellation that delivers high frequency imaging anywhere on the globe from an established and growing collection of satellites. The constellation is coordinated by DMCii to deliver high quality commercial earth imaging services.

DMCii manages the DMC constellation for the 'International Charter for Space and Major Disasters'. 

DMCII is a wholly owned subsidiary of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL).