The NEE-02 KRYSAOR is a PEGASUS class satelliite, of the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA),  which means that is a twin of the original NEE-01 PEGASUS.

The NEE-02 will be launched in to a 98.7 degree inclination, helio synchronous orbit, 720km perigee and 890km apogee on November 21, 2013

Its mission is the same as PEGASUS, serving education and also acting as orbital sentinels watching for possible threats from small NEOs in last phase of atmospheric entry and helping to catalog orbital debris. Also it has the latest advances in active deployment of its solar arrays, high speed digital transmission and a higher resolution video camera.

NEE-01 Pegasus was an Ecuadorian technology demonstration satellite, and Ecuador's first satellite to be launched to space. Built by the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA), it was a nanosatellite of the single-unit CubeSat class. The spacecraft's instruments included a dual visible and infrared camera which allowed the spacecraft to take pictures and transmit live video from space. The satellite operated normally until 23 May 2013 at approximately 05:38 UTC, Pegaso passed very close to the spent upper stage of a 1985 Tsyklon-3 rocket over the Indian Ocean. While there was no direct collision between the satellite and upper stage, Pegaso is believed to have suffered a "glancing blow" after passing through a debris cloud around the Tsyklon stage and striking one of the small pieces. After the incident, the satellite was found to be "spinning wildly over two of its axes" and unable to communicate with its ground station. While efforts were made to reestablish control of Pegaso, on 28 August 2013 the decision was made by EXA and the Ecuadorian government to declare the satellite as lost.

Planet Labs Inc. is an American company with the aim to provide universal access to information about the changing planet. 

We will operate the world's largest fleet of Earth imaging satellites to frequently image the entire planet and provide open access to that information. 

We build space platforms using state-of-the-art technology. We design and build the satellites in San Francisco; we test the capabilities in the lab, on mountaintops, from airplanes and in space:

• the Dove Series of Satellites.
• FLOCK 1: In early 2014, Planet Labs will launch the world's largest constellation of Earth observing satellites.

Tampa Microwave is an American company providing satellite terminals, test equipment, and RF components.

It was created as an engineering consulting firm in 1983. As the business grew, the company began designing and manufacturing Radio Frequency components for the communications market. This effort resulted in the introduction of a line of phased locked oscillators in 1988. Since that time, Tampa Microwave has exhibited steady growth driven by sales of a long list of new products. The business is currently located in a modern facility in the Tri County Business Park west of Tampa, Florida, USA. We offer our customers a broad range of hardware in four product categories: manportable and VSAT satellite terminals, specialized communications test equipment, microwave modules / components and custom communication system design services.

The Firefly Cubesat mission is a nano satellite mission, called 'Firefly,' sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

It will explore the relationship between lightning and these sudden bursts, called Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (TGFs).

TGFs are likely produced by beams of very energetic electrons, which are accelerated in the intense electric fields generated by large thunderstorm systems. Before CGRO, many scientists thought these very energetic types of radiation could be generated only near the Sun, or in black holes, large galaxies, or neutron stars.

"These electron beams are more powerful than any produced in near-Earth space, and understanding their acceleration mechanisms will shed light on a physical process that may occur on other planets, or in astrophysical environments, as well as in the sun's corona," said Doug Rowland, principal investigator for the Firefly mission at NASA Goddard's Space Weather Laboratory.

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by 34 states.

ECMWF is both a research institute and a 24/7 operational service, producing and disseminating numerical weather predictions to its Member States. This data is fully available to the national meteorological services in the Member States. The Centre also offers a catalogue of forecast data that can be purchased by businesses worldwide and other commercial customers. The supercomputer facility (and associated data archive) at ECMWF is one of the largest of its type in Europe and Member States can use 25% of its capacity for their own purposes.

ERA-CLIM is a collaborative research project involving 9 partners, funded by the European Union for a three-year period beginning January 2011. It is coordinated by ECMWF. 

ERA-CLIM stands for European Reanalysis of Global Climate Observations. The goal is to prepare input data and assimilation systems for a new global atmospheric reanalysis of the 20th century. This involves recovery and digitisation of early meteorological observations, reprocessing and recalibration of radiance measurements from satellites, and preparation of climate-quality atmospheric forcing data and boundary conditions. These input data sets will be used in several pilot reanalyses, including an exploratory climate reanalysis of the 20th century based on surface observations only; a corresponding high-resolution reanalysis of land-surface parameters, and a new atmospheric reanalysis of the satellite era from 1979 to present. Access to the ERA-CLIM pilot reanalyses, and to all observations used to produce them, will be provided via the internet.

Key objectives for ERA-CLIM are to:

• Improve the available observational record for the early 20th century
• Prepare data sets and assimilation tools needed for global reanalysis
• Provide information about data quality by means of pilot reanalyses
• Develop an Observation Feedback Archive facility for users
• Assess and reduce uncertainties in reanalysis data

ERA-CLIM is part of a larger effort to:

• Improve climate data access, data quality, and transparency
• Develop a sustainable capability for data recovery and reanalysis
• Develop core resources for future GMES climate services

This project is extended (ERA-CLIM2) for the period 2014-2016.

Eligos Inc is an American company dedicated to bringing to the satellite market the next generation of Electric Propulsion technologies.

We are applying Plasma Science coming from particle accelerators and thermonuclear fusion research to offer the best propulsion system for tomorrow satellites and spacecrafts.

ELIGOS holds an exclusive license on the E-IMPAcT technology a radical departure from legacy Electric Propulsion technologies by not requiring any electrode or neutralizer hence being fundamentally immune to short-circuiting or cathode failure. This technology has not been analyzed throughly analyzed in theory, an extensive design effort has allowed to produce a first engineering demonstrator. This first thruster demonstrator was successfully tested in Princeton University Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamic Laboratory.

The USRA's Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS) supports NASA's needs for understanding and counteracting the physiological changes that accompany space flight.

Based at USRA Houston, the DSLS manages extramural research programs, administers educational programs, coordinates a visiting/staff scientist program, and enhances collaboration between NASA and academic institutions through an extensive series of conferences, workshops, and seminars. This USRA division was established in 1983 as the Division of Space Biomedicine and facilitates participation of the university community in biomedical research programs at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC).

The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is an independent, nonprofit research corporation where the combined efforts of in-house talent and university-based expertise merge to advance space science and technology.

USRA works across disciplines including biomedicine, planetary science, astrophysics, and engineering and integrates those competencies into applications ranging from fundamental research to facility management and operations. USRA engages the creativity and authoritative expertise of the research community to develop and deliver sophisticated, forward-looking solutions to Federal agencies and other customers - on schedule and within budget.

USRA provides a mechanism through which universities can cooperate effectively with one another, with the government, and with other organizations to further space science and technology, and to promote education in these areas. Its mission is carried out through the institutes, centers, divisions, and programs. Administrative and scientific personnel now number about 420. A unique feature of USRA’s management is its system of standing panels of technical experts, drawn from the research community, to provide oversight for USRA’s institutes, centers, divisions and programs.

The BRRISON mission is an unprecedented rapid response to the opportunity presented by the discovery of comet ISON, providing a new planetary science platform which will fly above 99.5 percent of the atmosphere within one year of this discovery. It is the first NASA Planetary Science Division balloon mission to observe a comet.

The Comet ISON was discovered in September 2012, and is of great interest to scientists as it may hold clues to the formation of the solar system. The comet is believed to be making its first ever visit to the inner solar system.

Before the comet's close approach to the Sun in late November 2013, NASA will launch a special stratospheric balloon – the Balloon Rapid Response for ISON (BRRISON) – carrying a 0.8 m telescope and optical and infrared sensors to study the comet from above nearly all of Earth's atmosphere. The atmosphere is opaque at the light wavelengths that scientists want BRRISON to measure, which means those measurements are not possible from the ground. BRRISON will observe Comet ISON in the near-infrared and in the near-ultraviolet and visible wavelength ranges at an altitude of 120,000 feet. The near infrared camera will measure the ratio of carbon dioxide (CO2) to water (H2O) emissions from the cometary nuclei as a vital diagnostic of the comet's origins. These are unique observations that cannot be obtained by any other means. The near ultraviolet and visible camera will observe at the wavelength of the hydroxyl (OH) emission from Comet ISON and will test and characterize the effects of atmospheric turbulence on optical observations at balloon altitudes.