Satrec Initiative (SI) is a satellite manufacturer offering proposing platforms for Earth observation missions, offering customers worldwide turnkey satellite platforms, electro-optical instruments, ground systems and components.

SI provides solutions for Earth observation missions and applications. SI activities cover the whole spectrum for Earth observation missions including spacecraft bus, Earth observation payload, communication equipment and satellite image receiving and processing system.

SI also provides technical consulting and engineering support from multi-disciplinary and highly experienced engineers and scientists.

SI was founded in 1999.

The Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) is a global non-governmental organisation and professional network which aims to represent university students and young space professionals to the United Nations, space agencies, industry, and academia. SGAC works on the international, national and local level to link together university students and young professionals to think creatively about international space policy issues and inject the youth point of view into international space policy creation.

It works in support of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications.

SGAC's Goals are:

• to provide access to our members to inject their thoughts, views and opinions on the direction of international space policy;
• to undertake projects on key topics of relevance to international space policy and our members ;
• to present the student and young professional viewpoint around the world;
• to provide a dynamic forum in which students and young professionals can expand their knowledge of international space policy issues, build networks and think creatively about the future direction of humanity's use of space.

SAIC Inc. (formerly Science Applications International Corporation) is an American company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, USA, that provides scientific, engineering, systems integration, and technical services and solutions, including in space domains.

SAIC scientists and engineers  deliver innovative solutions, solve complex engineering problems and develope new technologies to expand the bounds of the technological envelope in the commercial, civil and military space domains. It is a "FORTUNE 500®" company: SAIC and its subsidiaries have approximately 40,000 employees worldwide (Nov. 2012).

Spatial Energy is a provider of digital imagery and services within the energy industry.

Solely dedicated to meeting the needs of energy companies operating worldwide, Spatial Energy acquires, processes, and manages an extensive collection of high resolution satellite and aerial imagery, topographic maps, and digital elevation models (DEMs). Imagery is available on demand from an extensive data archives, by tasking satellites and aerial providers, and by speculative collection. Spatial Energy has established preferred relationships with the leading data providers and can thus select the best source(s) to meet a client particular application. In addition, programs such as the Energy Partner Program (EPP), BasinWatch and Spatial on Demand provide simplified, cost effective access to imagery. The company goal is to reduce the cost, time and effort required to acquire imagery for all client needs.

The main goal of GENSO is to realise a worldwide network of radio amateur and university ground stations to support the operations of university satellites.

In order to achieve this goal, GENSO has been designed as a distributed system connected via the internet. The software applications that facilitate the data sharing have been developed in Java by an international team of students. Mission controllers of university satellites can normally gather around 20 minutes of data per day with their own university ground station. GENSO will give them free access to potentially hundreds of stations around the globe via the internet and increase their data return to many hours per day. It will also allow them to command their spacecraft from the other side of the world.

GENSO offers the capability to plan and schedule utilisation of ground station resources, predict the trajectories of spacecraft over the ground station and automate tracking and hardware control during a pass. The downlinked mission data is provided to the mission controllers within a few minutes of the end of the pass. A real-time communications link for transmission of telecommands and reception of telemetry is also possible.

GENSO is a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and is coordinated by ESA's Education Office. The University of Vigo in Spain hosts the European Operations Node and coordinates access to the GENSO network. The software development was carried out by a distributed set of students and radio amateur teams worldwide. From 2007-2010, over 100 students from universities in Europe, Japan and the USA contributed to GENSO.

GENSO means "Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations".

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is designed to probe the origin of the accelerating universe and help uncover the nature of dark energy by measuring the 14-billion-year history of cosmic expansion with high precision.

More than 120 scientists from 23 institutions in the United States, Spain, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Germany are working on the project. This collaboration is building an extremely sensitive 570-Megapixel digital camera, DECam, and will mount it on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory high in the Chilean Andes. Starting in Sept. 2012 and continuing for five years, DES will survey a large swath of the southern sky out to vast distances in order to provide new clues to this most fundamental of questions.   

The survey nature of DES is driven by its science requirements which require information about a large number of galaxies at the most distant reaches of the viewable universe. The DES will catalog the sky in a 5000 square degree area over 525 nights of viewing using the new Dark Energy Camera (DECam). It will record information on over 300 million galaxies, most so faint that their light is around 1 million times fainter than the dimmest star that can be seen with the naked eye. Some of these galaxies are so distant that the light we see from them will have left the galaxy when the universe was less than half its current age.

DES tries to answer the question: Why is the universe expansion speeding up?

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is offering a comprehensive U.S. manned space flight hardware museum and space education facilities.

Its facilities include Spacedome Theater, Rocket Park, Space Camp and an Education Training Center which houses NASA's Educator Resource Center. 

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