Danish Aerospace Company (DAC) is a high-tech company operating in the area of advanced medical instrumentation and other engineering fields primarily within space applications.

The hardware from DAC has flown on the majority of todays (May 2013) manned and unmanned space transportation vehicles. This includes flights on:

• All US Space Shuttles (Now retired)
• Soyuz capsules from Russia (manned)
• Russian Progress vehicles (unmanned)
• European ATV-transport vehicles (unmanned)
• HTV-transport vehicles from Japan (unmanned)

OICETS, the Optical Inter-Orbit Communications Engineering Test Satellite (other name Kirari) is an experimental satellite by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to demonstrate interorbital communication between satellites through optical (laser) means.

In order to be able to perform the tests during the lifetime of the European Artemis satellite, OICETS was successfully launched on a Dnepr launcher.

Operation finished by September 24, 2009.

The Swiss Propulsion Laboratory (SPL), founded in autumn 1998, is running integrated programs focusing on research and development of space-technology in Switzerland.

Objectives and Strategies

SPL aims to develop, build and run reasonable priced systems to transport small payloads into a low-earth orbit (LEO). Old and established paths are intentionally renounced in order to envisage new and innovative concepts covering impacts on our environment as much as possible.

Involving external facilities and inviting other organizations to participate allows SPL to achieve its objectives. The components will be developed in a joint effort of SPL, interested universities, graduate schools and Switzerland precision industry. SPL will provide the required co-ordination of all involved parties, for example by extracting and forwarding precisely defined technical problems to educational institutions, thereby enabling them to effectively take part in space-technology oriented "applied science".

GATS, Inc. is an aerospace company founded in 1986.

GATS primary area of business is support of satellite-based atmospheric remote sensing projects. This includes all phases of project life cycle, from concept development to data dissemination and research efforts. GATS propose calibration and performance analysis software, radiative transfer packages, flight operations utilities, and web-based project and data management systems.

NanoSpace AB is a Swedish company developing and providing electro-mechanical products for space. It is a subsidiary of Swedish Space Corporation (SSC).

MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) is the core technology in NanoSpace's products. NanoSpace's vision is to be a recognized supplier of novel space qualified products based on innovative thinking and solid knowledge from both MEMS and space industry.

MEMS technology has changed the landscape in areas such as biotech, life science and the automotive industry. Components and subsystems based on MEMS technology are currently being introduced into the space sector and NanoSpace is one of the few companies devoted to this development.

Universal Space Network Inc (USN) is an American company specializing in tracking, telemetry, and control of spacecraft.

It is a subsidiary of Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), with four main sites and cooperative agreements with many others. USN has been used by commercial satellite operations such as Sirius XM Radio and scientific missions both in low earth orbit (such as GALEX) and in orbit around the moon (such as Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and GRAIL). 

The Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) is a NASA technology demonstration mission that was launched in 2011 and successfully completed in 2013 from the International Space Station (ISS).

The purpose is to demonstrate the technology and tools to refuel satellites in orbit by robotic means. After the proof of concept, the long-term goal of NASA is to transfer the technology to the commercial sector.

A step II mission is scheduled during the summer of 2013 and early 2014.

RRM is designed with four tools, each with electronics and two cameras and lights. Additionally, it has pumps and controllers and electrical systems such as electrical valves and sensors.

Zodiac Data Systems designs, manufactures and supplies a broad range of products and solutions in the fields of:

• airborne & ground telemetry, flight test
• mission video & data recording
• remote sensing
• satellite TT&C (including Ranging)
• signal monitoring, analysis and geolocation (Satcom QoS & Software Defined Radio)

Applied Analysis Inc (AAI) provides airborne and satellite imagery-assisted environmental reconnaissance and assessment products.

AAI is focused on developing approaches and technologies for extracting more detailed and quantitative information from overhead remote sensing systems, and using those innovations to provide customers with truly useful, quantitatively defensible answers to real-world problems.

European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world's most productive astronomical observatory. ESO provides state-of-the-art research facilities to astronomers and is supported by Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, along with the host state of Chile. Several other countries have expressed an interest in membership.

ESO, formally the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, is usually known as The European Southern Observatory.

ESO's main mission, laid down in the 1962 Convention, is to provide state-of-the-art research facilities to astronomers and astrophysicists, allowing them to conduct front-line science in the best conditions. The annual Member State contributions to ESO are approximately 198 million euros and ESO employs around 700 staff members. By building and operating a suite of the world's most powerful ground-based astronomical telescopes enabling important scientific discoveries, ESO offers numerous possibilities for technology spin-off and transfer, together with high technology contract opportunities and is a dramatic showcase for European industry.

The ESO Headquarters (comprising the scientific, technical and administrative centre of the organisation) are located in Garching near Munich, Germany. In Chile, ESO operates the Vitacura centre as well as three unique observing sites: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor.

ESO is building the 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope, the ELT, which will become “the world’s biggest eye on the sky”.