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Ad Astra Rocket Company
Vision: To revolutionize space transportation and exploration, through the development and commercialization of the VASIMRTM engine and related technologies
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Andrews Space
Aerospace company that specializes in enterprise and technology development for the emerging space markets.
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ARCASPACE
Aerospace company that specializes in enterprise and technology development for the emerging space markets.
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Arianespace
Arianespace is the commercial launch services leader, holding more than 50 percent of the world market for satellites to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). Created as the first commercial space transportation company in 1980, Arianespace has signed contracts for 285 satellite payloads.
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Armadillo Aerospace
Armadillo Aerospace is a small research and development team working on computer-controlled LOX/ethanol rocket vehicles, with an eye towards manned suborbital vehicle development in the coming years. The team currently consists of a bunch of guys, a girl, and an armadillo named Widget. Our fearless leader, John Carmack, will lead us to space and, well, outer space. Please feel free to make yourselves at home and check out our journey.
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Astrobotic Technology
"Every well-designed challenge always seems just a little beyond what's possible. Only when it's over do you get the sense that there was really nothing to it."
- Dr. William "Red" Whittaker
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Benson Space Company
Until recenly, the public has only been able to experience space travel vicariously through the adventures of a privileged few. The adrenalin from countdown, the rush of ignition and the thrill of being launched to space on a roaring rocket has been witnessed from a distance. With Benson Space Company, you will be able to experience that thrill, right off the launch pad. Spaceflight, the extreme luxury sport, is becoming a reality.
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Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace is dedicated to developing next-generation crewed space complexes to revolutionize space commerce and open up the final frontier to all of humanity. At Bigelow Aerospace, we're building the future today!
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Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace is dedicated to developing next-generation crewed space complexes to revolutionize space commerce and open up the final frontier to all of humanity. At Bigelow Aerospace, we're building the future today!
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Blue Origin
We�re working, patiently and step-by-step, to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system.
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Canadian Arrow/PlanetSpace
It is you, our customers, who will determine how well we do in this new market and you can be sure everyone at PLANETSPACE will be working hard to make sure your dreams of personal spaceflight come true. At Canadian Arrow we are still "making SPACE for you" and through our new partnerships we are now finally able to open SPACE for the whole PLANET
Geoff Sheerin President and CEO
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Da Vinci Project
Driven by the human urge to explore, we strive to touch space so everyone may be elevated to that height and beyond. We will do so with the continued passion and innovation of our talented volunteer staff and the generosity of our benefactors.
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EADS Astrium Space Tourism Project
Space plays a crucial role in our daily lives, in security and defence, protecting the environment, scientific and technical advances, telecommunications and a host of everyday services � and where there�s space, there�s Astrium.
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Frontier Astronautics
Frontier Astronautics is a Limited Liability Company dedicated to providing hard to get technology and services to the burgeoning entrepreneurial space industry. We specialize in affordable and reliable Rocket Engines and Attitude Control Systems. We also can provide custom design and testing services of a customer's rocket engines or flight vehicles.
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International Launch Services
International Launch Services is the U.S.-Russian joint venture with exclusive rights for worldwide commercial sales and mission management of satellite launches on Russia's premier vehicle, the Proton.
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Interorbital Systems
Interorbital Systems (IOS), established in 1996, develops and manufactures low-cost, state-of-the-art manned and unmanned orbital launch vehicles for commercial, governmental, and military applications. IOS rockets are designed to be launched from land or sea.
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JP Aerospace
JP Aerospace is a volunteer-based organization achieving cheap access to space by just doing it.
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Rocketplane Kistler
We are the developer of the K-1 fully reusable aerospace vehicle, designed to deliver payloads to orbit and provide a low-cost alternative to single-use launch vehicles.
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Masten Space Systems -
Masten Space Systems is developing a line of Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing (VTVL) launch vehicles that provide reduced costs and a larger range of mission options by focusing on development and operational processes that ensure speed to market, extremely fast turn around times, and an almost retail purchasing experience.
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Transformational Space Corporation T/Space
Opening space to frontier settlement and development requires breakthroughs in lower costs and higher safety. The t/Space team is working toward these goals by combining the rapid-prototyping approach of its innovative aerospace partners with the space experience of key personnel drawn from the White House, NASA and large aerospace companies.
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Rocketplane Limited, Inc.
Rocketplane, Inc. is a commercial space transportation company focused on providing safe, reliable and low-cost access to space. With a diverse family of fully-reusable space vehicles and the ability to serve multiple space markets, the company is poised to redefine space transportation.
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Scaled Composites/Mojave Aerospace Ventures/The Spaceship Company
Scaled Composites, LLC is an aerospace and specialty composites development company located in Mojave, California (about 80 miles north of Los Angeles). Founded in 1982 by Burt Rutan, Scaled has broad experience in air vehicle design, tooling, manufacturing, specialty composite structure design, analysis, fabrication and developmental flight test.
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Space Adventures
Over the next decade Space Adventures will fly more people to space than have made the journey since the dawn of the Space Age. Our clients will fly on suborbital flights, on voyages to Earth orbit and on historic expeditions that circumnavigate the moon. Flights will leave from spaceports both on Earth and in space, visiting private space stations, and aboard dozens of different vehicles. By continually providing newly available space experiences and improving existing space experiences, Space Adventures will continue to lead the private spaceflight industry that it begun in 2001 with the flight of the world's first space tourist.
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SpaceDev Inc
SpaceDev (OTCBB:SPDV) is an entrepreneurial space systems company that develops high performance, innovative components and systems that are changing how we get to, explore, and use space. Our products range from spacecraft actuators that power the Mars rovers, to hybrid rocket technologies that powered the first commercial astronaut to space, and from microsatellites controlled by the Internet to Dream Chaser�, a winged and piloted orbital commercial spacecraft. SpaceDev products innovate, enable and perform.
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SpaceQuest, Ltd.
SpaceQuest is an engineering company dedicated to supporting innovation in space. From University satellite programs to the burgeoning private spaceflight initiative, SpaceQuest has been there and has the flight-qualified systems and expertise your project needs to get from paper to orbit!
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SpaceX
As winner of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services competition, SpaceX is designing and building the Falcon 9 human-rated launch vehicle and Dragon spaceship to transport cargo and then astronauts to the International Space Station.
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Starchaser Industries
Starchaser Industries are working on two concepts for the purpose of Space Tourism. The near term objective is the creation of a 3 person reusable space capsule called Thunderstar which will be used for sub-orbital flights in excess of 100km. The second system is a vertically launched 8 seat sub-orbital space plane that could be upgradeable for orbital applications.
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UP Aerospace
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Thortek Laboratories, Inc.
Thortek Laboratories is in the business of researching and developing environmentally friendly innovations and technologies, focusing in the power and energy industries; however, many of our projects span a variety of categories of industry and technology, allowing for a much broader and more experienced base of knowledge.
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Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is the world's first spaceline. Giving you the groundbreaking opportunity to become one of the first ever non-professional astronauts. Virgin Galactic will own and operate its privately built spaceships, modelled on the remarkable, history-making SpaceShipOne.
Virgin's vast experience in aviation, adventure, luxury travel and cutting-edge design combined with the unique technology developed by Burt Rutan will ensure an unforgettable experience unlike any other available to mankind.
With safety at the forefront, our unique spacecraft is being designed at Rutan's base in Mojave, California alongside a concerted research and development programme.
"The deal with Mojave Aerospace Ventures is just the start of what we believe will be a new era in the history of mankind, one day making the affordable exploration of space by human beings a real possibility." Richard Branson.
It is these spaceships that will allow affordable sub-orbital space tourism for the first time in the history of the universe.
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XCOR
Founded in 1999, XCOR Aerospace is a small, privately-held California C-Corporation. Our headquarters and development facilities are located at the Mojave Spaceport and Civilian Aerospace Test Center in Mojave, California. XCOR engages in research, development, and production of reusable rocket-powered, horizontal launch vehicles for suborbital, and ultimately, orbital travel.
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