The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI),  is one of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development (R&D) organizations in the USA. 

SwRI provides contract research and development services to government and industrial clients. Among several areas of activities, SwRI comptence cover Space Science and Engineering.

It is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, USA. It was founded in 1947. 

Planetary Resources Inc. is an American company based in Washington, USA.

Planetary Resources, Inc.'s goal is to "expand Earth's natural resource base" by developing and deploying the technologies for asteroid mining. 

Though the long-term goal of the company is to mine asteroids, its initial plans call for developing a market for small (30–50 kg) cost-reduced space telescopes for both Earth observation and astronomy.

It is was formed in November 2010 (formerly known as Arkyd Astronautics), reorganized and renamed in 2012.

ArchAtlas is a web-orientated archaeological mapping and research project. It is developed at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK.

The ArchAtlas project aims to provide a visual summary of spatial processes in prehistoric and early historic times, such as the spread of farming, the formation of trade contacts, and the growth of urban systems, and to illustrate the locations of key archaeological sites. It uses GIS techniques to integrate georeferenced information on archaeological sites, cultural entities and contact routes with environmental data and satellite imagery.

The Society for Popular Astronomy is a national astronomical society based in the United Kingdom for beginners to amateur astronomy.

It was founded in 1953 as the Junior Astronomical Society.

The European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) is a non-profit-making organisation which is actively involved in coordinating and strengthening the Earth-observation (EO) chain and promoting the European geo-information industry.

EARSC is open to corporative and observer members with deeply interest in providing services delivering information based on observations of the Earth and its environment.

Since 1989, EARSC has provided its Members technical expertise and policy guidance. The Association maintains close links with key European Institutions, including Industry, ESA and National Space Agencies, providing a key unified voice on wider European issues.

Esri  is a worldwide supplier of Geographic Information System (GIS) software and geodatabase management applications.

Esri is headquartered inRedlands, California, USA.

[ merged in 2013 in Aerojet Rocketdyne ]

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) was a United States company that designed and produced rocket engines that use liquid propellants.

PWR was a division of Pratt & Whitney. It was a provider of high-value propulsion, power, energy and innovative system solutions used in a wide variety of government and commercial applications, including the main engines for the space shuttle, Atlas and Delta launch vehicles, missile defense systems and advanced hypersonic engines.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne was headquartered in Canoga Park, Calif., USA.

STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is a NASA solar observation mission.

Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits around the sun that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth. This will enable stereoscopic imaging of the Sun and solar phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections.

see: STEREO Science Center

LMSAL is a department of the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto, CA, USA.

LMSAL gathers a group of scientists and engineers who design, build, and operate solar and astrophysical observing instruments. LMSAL and the Space Physics Lab comprise the ATC's Space Sciences Office.

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (or IRIS) is a space probe, planned by NASA, to observe the Sun.

It is a NASA Small Explorer program mission to investigate the physical conditions of the solar limb, particularly the chromosphere of the Sun.

IRIS will observe how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun's lower atmosphere. Tracking how material and energy move through this region is a crucial part of understanding the dynamics of the sun.

NASA announced on June 19, 2009 that IRIS was selected from six small explorer mission candidates^.