QinetiQ Space is a space system integrator.

QinetiQ Space has developed instruments and facilities for scientific research in a microgravity environment, such as material and fluid science research, on both manned and unmanned missions. A lot of these facilities are used on a daily basis by the astronauts in the International Space Station.

QinetiQ Space offers space mechanisms for docking; separation and one-shot opening mechanisms. We have delivered numerous instruments for scientific research for both manned and unmanned missions. Many of these facilities are used on a daily basis by astronauts on the ISS.

In the mid of the nineties QinetiQ Space took the initiative to deploy small satellite activities in Belgium. After the successful launch and demonstration of the PROBA1 satellite QinetiQ Space proved the potential of small satellites for remote sensing applications such as earth observation, environmental monitoring, security and others. Since then QinetiQ Space has established its role as the principal provider of LightSats to the European Space Agency (ESA) by taking up the prime contractor ship for PROBA2 (solar science) and PROBA-V (vegetation) and a key role in the formation flying mission PROBA3.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense.

NGA provides timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of USA national security.

Its primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). In addition, NGA is a key component of the United States Intelligence Community.

The NGA Commercial Archive Data

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), in partnership with the Civil Applications Committee (CAC), of which NASA is a member, provides access to its immense archive of unclassified commercial high-resolution satellite data to non-DOD government agencies under terms of its NextView contract. See this website.

The International Space Company Kosmotras or ISC Kosmotras is a joint project, between Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, established in 1997.

It developed and now operates a commercial expendable launch system using the Dnepr rocket. The Dnepr is a converted Soviet era SS-18 ICBM decommissioned as part of the START Treaty. ISC Kosmotras conducts Dnepr launches at both Baikonur Cosmodrome and at a new Yasny launch base in Dombarovskiy, Russia.

The Yasny launch base is located in Orenburg Region, Russia.

The base is composed of the following facilities:

• Admin & Hotel Complex including hotels, dining facilities and office premises;
• Assembly, Integration and Test Building (AITB) incorporating clean room facilities and fueling station;
• Block house on the launch pad for payload pre-launch health status control (hosts customer's personnel and equipment);
• Necessary utilities supporting the launch base operations.

The Yasny launch base is located next to the Dombarovsky air base.  Dombarovsky is an interceptor aircraft base in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located 6 km northwest of the village of Dombarovsky, near Yasny. Dombarovsky was built during the mid-60s as a Soviet ICBM bases.

The Florida Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Florida Tech or FIT), is a private research university located in Melbourne, Florida, United States.

Florida Tech has five academic divisions with strong emphases on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Within the Florida Tech, the Department of Physics and Space Sciences (PSS) offers students a solid foundation in the physical sciences with the personalized attention of our 15 full-time faculty. Our department was the first in the country to offer a degree in Space Sciences, and we are still among only a handful that offers this degree today. Our graduates obtain employment at NASA, in the private-sector industry, and academia.

The Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, Berkeley.

It is located in the Berkeley Hills above the university campus. It has developed and continues to develop many projects in the space sciences.

SSL developed and maintains the SETI@home project which pioneered the application of distributed computing to the space sciences.
It created the related projects Stardust@home and BOINC.
It is home to the Space Physics Research Group, which does Plasma physics research.
It has developed many satellite missions and serves as a ground station for those missions. Some of the satellites it has developed are:

• The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) satellite
• The Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) satellite constellation
• The Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST)
• The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPSat)
• The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)
• The Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI)

SSL does science education outreach via the Center for Science Education (CSE).

The CST-100 (Crew Space Transportation) crew capsule is a spacecraft design proposed by Boeing in collaboration with Bigelow Aerospace as their entry for NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program.

Its primary mission would be to transport crew to the International Space Station, and to private space stations such as the proposed Bigelow Aerospace Commercial Space Station.

SC Modeler is a software for the conceptual design, visualization and analysis of satellite constellations.

It was written for aerospace engineers and other professionals involved in development of space-based communications systems, Earth observation systems, navigation systems.

SC Modeler provides an integrated modeling environment and all the necessary functionality for visualizing a satellite constellation and carrying out many tasks of constellation analysis including visibility studies and analysis of the geometry of communication links. The software includes a set of productivity tools which offers an efficient and convenient way of managing model properties, constellation parameters and design constraints.

company: AVM Dynamics

AVM Dynamics is a software and consultancy company based in Miami, Florida, USA. 

The company proposes a softwar to help the conceptual design, analysis and visualization of a satellite constellation: SC Modeler software.

Grasshopper is an experimental technology-demonstrator, suborbital reusable launch vehicle (RLV), a vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) rocket announced in 2011 for low-altitude testing that began in 2012. 

Grasshopper is being developed and tested by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in order to assist development of the reusable Falcon 9 and reusable Falcon Heavy rockets, which will require vertical landings of the near-empty Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy first-stage tanks and engine assemblies.

Grasshopper is one element of the multi-element SpaceX reusable rocket launching system test program, a program that includes both low-altitude, low-speed testing of the Grasshopper vehicle at SpaceX' Texas test site, as well as high-altitude, high-speed controlled-descent tests of post-mission (spent) Falcon 9 booster stages on Falcon 9 commercial missions beginning in mid-2013.