Space Investment Company is a provider of inspiring and entertaining educational experiences in space science and aviation in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Sub-Continent.

The company's obejective is to bring the U.S. space technology to the Asian and African continents through SpaceWorld villages in the Arabian Gulf, India and North Africa. It acquired the Space Camp and Aviation technology licenses from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center with a mission: To use U.S. Space & Aviation Technology to stimulate regional interest in the study of aerospace sciences. The company aims to see thousands of Space and Aviation Scientists in non-US regions, scientists who are as competent as those preceding them in America. It propose the following activities:

• Exploration of the dynamics of space and aviation;
• Simulation of the challenges astronauts and pilots encounter during missions;
• Discovery of one's self and the universe in order to reach new heights.

Locations: India, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

SPACE is an Indian company churning out innovative and exciting hands-on astronomy education and astro-tourism services.

The company offers a set of products ranging from recreational science solutions, skill development workshops, stress management, educative & entertaining activities that can be customized as per clients.

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, IAA-CSIC) is an astrophysics-related research institute.

It is located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. IAA activities are related with research in the field of astrophysics, and instrumental development both for telescopes and space missions. Scientific research at the institute covers the following areas:

1. solar system;
2. star formation, stellar structure and evolution;
3. galaxy formation and evolution; and
4. cosmology.

The IAA was created as a research institute of the CSIC in July 1975. Presently (in 2012), the IAA operates the Sierra Nevada Observatory. It operates as well the Calar Alto Observatory jointly with the Max-Planck Institute of Heidelberg.

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía is divided in the following departments:

• Department of Extragalactic Astronomy
• Violent Stellar Formation Group
• AMIGA Group (Analysis of the interstellar Medium of Isolated Galaxies)
• Department of Stellar Physics
• Department of Radio Astronomy and Galactic Structure
• Stellar Systems Group
• Department of Solar System

Sinclair Interplanetary is a supplier of hardware, software, training and expertise to the spacecraft community.

The primary focus is on low-cost, rapid-schedule programs to produce micro- or nano-satellites. It is based in Toronto, Canada and was founded in 2001.

The Dnepr rocket is a space launch vehicle named after the Dnieper River.

It is a converted ICBM used for launching artificial satellites into orbit, operated by the launch service provider ISC Kosmotras. The first launch, on April 21, 1999, successfully placed UoSAT-12, a 350 kg demonstration mini-satellite, into a 650 km circular Low Earth orbit.

The Dnepr is based on the R-36MUTTH ICBM – called the SS-18 Satan by NATO.

The Space Grant Education and Enterprise Institute is a non-profit organisation which aims to enable students of all ethnic and financial backgrounds to attain high skill technical and professional careers through education and exciting programs.

The Mars Institute is a non-profit research organization whose mission is to further the scientific study, exploration and public understanding of Mars. It is an international non-governmental organization. 

It is conducting high-quality, peer-reviewed research, and educating the public on the progress toward and benefits of Mars exploration.

It was incorporated as a non-profit corporation in both California, USA, and Canada in 2002. 

Ecliptic Enterprises is an American company that creates on-board imaging systems for use with rockets, spacecraft, and other remote platforms. It is based in Pasadena, Calif., USA.

Ecliptic Enterprises also provides cost-effective space-access solutions for small space payloads. 

The activities of Ecliptic Enterprises encompass:

• imaging and sensor technology for spacecraft,
• small secondary, payload technologies,
• space transportation technologies.

The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. The acronym SETI means Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence.

The SETI Institute is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific research, education and public outreach.

The Institute comprises three centers, the Center for SETI Research, the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe and the Center for Education and Public Outreach. It was founded in 1984.

The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) will provide decision-support tools to a wide variety of users. It will proactively link together existing and planned observing systems around the world and support the development of new systems where gaps currently exist.

It is being built (in 2012) by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), on the basis of a 10-Year Implementation Plan running from 2005 to 2015. 

GEOSS seeks to connect the producers of environmental data and decision-support tools with the end users of these products, with the aim of enhancing the relevance of Earth observations to global issues. The result is to be a global public infrastructure that generates comprehensive, near-real-time environmental data, information and analyses for a wide range of users.