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TGV Rockets Inc. is an American company specialised in the design of aerospace vehicles, including reusable launch vehicles (rocketships), high altitude aircraft, lighter than air vehicles, orbital mission designs, and micro-satellites.

TGV Rockets and key personnel have been involved in the conceptual design of a highly operable low-cost suborbital launch vehicle (TGV's MICHELLE-B), the conceptual design of a vertical takeoff and landing (VTVL) research vehicle (DC-X), the conceptual design of high performance VTVL research vehicles (DC-Y, DC-X2, SX-2 and X-33 Proposal) including high altitude piston powered aircraft, high altitude glider systems, micro-satellite upper stages, and associated mission design and conceptual design of special purpose GEO communication satellites.

Bristol Spaceplanes is a British company dedicated to spaceplane design.

It was founded in 1991 to realise low-cost access to space. Its clients include ESA, and its work has been used to further NASA studies on reusable launch vehicles and space tourism. Bristol Spaceplanes' designs have been the subject of feasibility studies from ESA and the UK Department of Trade and Industry.