Private spaceflight companies

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

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American spaceflight company

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

American company which specializes in the manufacturing and launch of satellites

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American space technology company

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private launcher services provider

American company founded in 2009

American electronic systems provider and systems integrator

former space technology holding company

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crowd funded space programme

American aerospace company

private Japanese company developing robotic spacecraft technologies

German space launch service provider

American company specializing in satellite imaging of Earth

American space robotics company

private spaceflight company

former aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas

Amazon's satellites and space-based systems project

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The OTRAG rocket was a West German modular satellite-delivery rocket developed by the OTRAG company (, or ) in the 1970s and 80s. The OTRAG rocket was to become a rocket built up from several mass-produced units, intended to carry satellites with a weight of 1-10 tons or more into orbit. Mass production meant that the vehicle was projected to have been 10x cheaper than conventional vehicles of similar capability.

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American aerospace company

Dynetics is an American applied science and information technology company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. Its primary customers are the United States Department of Defense (DoD), the United States Intelligence Community, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

SpinLaunch is a spaceflight technology development company working on mass accelerator technology to move payloads to space. As of September 2022, the company has raised US$150 million in funding, with investors including Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, Airbus Ventures, ATW Partners, Catapult Ventures, Lauder Partners, John Doerr, and the Byers Family.

Orbital Express Launch Ltd., or Orbex, was a United Kingdom-based aerospace company that was developing commercial orbital launch vehicles, namely a small rocket called Prime and a medium-lift rocket called Proxima. Orbex was headquartered in Forres, Moray, in Scotland and had subsidiaries in Denmark and Germany. Orbex planned to build its future launch complex, Sutherland spaceport, on the A' Mhòine peninsula in the county of Sutherland, northern Scotland, if and when deemed necessary. After failed takeover talks with The Exploration Company, Orbex began insolvency proceedings in February 202

American company in the asteroid mining sector

Romanian Cosmonautics and Aeronautics Association (), also known as ARCAspace, is an aerospace company based in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania. It builds rockets, high-altitude balloons, and unmanned aerial vehicles.

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SpaceDev, a part of the "Space Systems Business" of Sierra Nevada Corporation, is prominent for its spaceflight and microsatellite work. It designed and built components for the hybrid rocket motors for Paul Allen's Tier One suborbital SpaceShipOne space program operated by Scaled Composites. It is also developing micro- and nano-satellites, a small expendable launch vehicle, the SpaceDev Streaker, and has designed a piloted suborbital and orbital spaceship of its own, the SpaceDev Dream Chaser, in collaboration with NASA.

2015–2018 aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor

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spacecraft manufacturing company

Japanese rocket company

Skyrora Ltd is a British space launch company based founded in 2017, based in Glasgow, Scotland. The company has a design and manufacturing facility in nearby Cumbernauld.

Spanish aerospace company

Chinese private space launch company

French and German spacecraft manufacturer

American aerospace company

Chinese aerospace company

Australian space company

former aerospace company

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Japanese rocket company

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Spanish aerospace design company

private Spanish company developing high-altitude balloons

American aerospace company working on a reusable rocket

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Canadian space transportation company

design concept for a commercial space station

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TeamIndus (incorporated as Axiom Research Labs) is a private for-profit aerospace company headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It consists of a team of professionals from various backgrounds in science, technology, finance, and media, that came together in 2010 with the aim of winning the Google Lunar X Prize competition announced in 2007. Although the competition ended in 2018 without a winner, TeamIndus is still working towards developing and launching their lunar rover mission sometime in 2020 after partnering with OrbitBeyond.

South Korean aerospace manufacturer

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