Commercial launch service providers

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site in Starbase, Texas. Since its founding in 2002, the company has made numerous advances in rocket propulsion, reusable launch vehicles, human spaceflight and satellite constellation technology. , SpaceX conducts more orbital launches annually than any other launch provider, including private competitors and national programs like the Chinese space program. SpaceX, NASA, and the United States Armed Forces work clo

Arianespace SA is a French company founded in March 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It operates the Ariane 6, a medium-to-heavy-lift rocket. Arianespace is a subsidiary of ArianeGroup, a joint venture between Airbus and Safran.

joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing

Japanese company

American company which specializes in the manufacturing and launch of satellites

U.S. & New Zealand aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider

Chinese state-owned defense company

Russian aerospace subsidiary of the Energia Group

private launcher services provider

Chinese state-owned defense company

Starsem is a French-Russian company that was created in 1996 to commercialise the Soyuz launcher internationally. Starsem is headquartered in Évry, France (near Paris) and has the following shareholders: ArianeGroup (35%) Arianespace (15%) Roscosmos (25%) Progress Rocket Space Centre (25%)

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former American aerospace corporation

2015–2018 aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor

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LandSpace Technology Corporation (doing business as LandSpace) is a Chinese commercial space launch provider based in Beijing. It was founded in 2015 by Zhang Changwu.

Japanese rocket company

India Government Agency to exploit commercial opportunities in space exploration

launch service provider

commercial division of the Indian Space Research Organization

Chinese private space launch company

Spanish aerospace company

Chinese aerospace company

Japanese rocket company

Canadian space transportation company

type of company which specialises in launching spacecraft

HyImpulse is a German private space launch enterprise headquartered in Neuenstadt am Kocher and developing a small launch vehicle designed around hybrid-propellant rockets. The company is a DLR spinoff founded in 2018 out of the chemical propulsion center of the German space agency's Lampoldshausen facility. HyImpulse is bankrolled by Rudolf Schwarz, chairman of German technology company IABG.

Chinese space launch enterprise founded in 2018, developing The Lijian-1 (Zhongke-1A, ZK-1A)

Glavkosmos () is a Russian launch service provider and subsidiary of the State Corporation for Space Activities "Roscosmos". In the Soviet Union, Glavkosmos was the prime authority for implementing cooperative agreements with foreign bodies, with activities including commercial utilisation of Soviet systems and flying foreign cosmonauts aboard Soviet spacecraft. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union and creation of Roscosmos, it has been concerned with converting military technology for use in civil applications as well as commercialisation of Russian space technology.

ExPace (ExPace Technology Corporation; also called CASIC Rocket Technology Company) is a Chinese state-owned space rocket company, based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Its corporate compound is located at the Wuhan National Space Industry Base space industrial park. ExPace is a wholly owned subsidiary of spacecraft and missile maker China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit. ExPace was established in February 2016. ExPace was founded as a Chine

launch vehicle designer and launch service provider