Launch Systems & Space Transportation
Aerojet Corporation: Aerojet, a GenCorp company, is a major aerospace/defense contractor specializing in missile and space propulsion, and defense and armaments.
[Aerojet jobs]
Alaska Aerospace Development: The Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation (AADC) is a public corporation created in 1992 to develop aerospace related economic and technical opportunities for the State of Alaska. AADC is working with private corporations, government agencies, and universities to develop a comprehensive low earth orbit launch complex and full service satellite ground station facilities.
Andøya Rocket Range: (ARR), which was founded in 1962, is the world's northernmost permanent facility for launching sounding rockets and balloons. Andøya Rocket Range is an operational unit in Norwegian Space Centre.
Andrews Space: Andrews Space, Inc. is a privately held company developing new and innovative space transportation solutions for government and commercial markets. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Andrews' technical competencies include product/system development, space system design, propulsion system design, systems engineering, and business analysis.
[Andrews Space jobs]
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 250 satellite payloads. [Arianespace jobs]
Asia Pacific Space Centre: Asia Pacific Space Centre is an international commercial space launch services company that is planning to develop a commercial launch space centre on the Australian Territory of Christmas Island. APSC will develop a spaceport facility and a commercial satellite launch capability with use of a Russian launch system.
[APSC jobs]
Astrox Corporation: Established in 1987, Astrox is capable if providing quality research related to Single-Stage-to-Orbit (SSTO), and TSTO vehicle designs, hypersonic aircraft and missile design, rocket system design, aviation systems, computational fluid dynamics, theoretical fluid mechanics and advanced studies for workstations.
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Bigelow Aerospace: Bigelow Aerospace vision is to play a major role in drastically altering the current restricted environment surrounding private ownership and use of space stations by making habitable space stations affordable for corporate communities.
[Bigelow jobs]
Bristol Aerospace: Bristol Aerospace Limited is a leading Canadian aerospace company. The Black Brant family of sounding rockets, manufactured by Bristol Aerospace, is used for studying the upper atmosphere or conducting micro-gravity research. As well, Bristol plays a key role in the development, manufacture, integration and packaging of space payloads for sounding rockets and NASA's space shuttle program. Bristol is currently involved in small satellite development for the Canadian Space Agency.
[Bristol Aerospace jobs]
Bristol Spaceplanes: Bristol Spaceplanes Limited, based in Bristol, England, was formed in 1991 to provide technical assistance to commercial organisations and aerospace companies interested in low cost satellite launches, and in tourism in space. Since then it has prepared plans to develop the Ascender sub-orbital spaceplane, and an experienced core design team has been formed.
California Spaceport: The California Spaceport is a commercially operated complex on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Spaceport provides commercial payload processing and launch alternatives to cost conscious customers with either polar or ballistic space launch programs.
Delta Velocity: From launch and propulsion systems to orbital transfer vehicles, from program and operations management to systems engineering and design, from fabrication to testing to qualification—Delta Velocity provides complete space transportation solutions based on technical superiority and successful, real-world experience.
DynSpace: DynSpace Corporation, a subsidiary of DynCorp, the $1.2 billion company known for its technology and services leadership, is a high technology company specializing in the launching of commercial satellites into low earth orbits. DynSpace will operate and manage the
Virginia Space Flight Center (VSFC) at Wallops Island, Virginia.
[DynSpace jobs]
Ecliptic Enterprises: Ecliptic's popular RocketCamT imaging systems and related data-transport systems are used routinely on launch vehicles, spacecraft and other remote platforms in the air-land-sea arenas to provide dramatic engineering and PR-quality color video. Ecliptic pursues and supports other special projects involving aerospace avionics, ground systems and small space payloads and instrumentation.
[Ecliptic jobs]
E'Prime Aerospace: E'Prime Aerospace Corporation (EPAC) was established in February, 1987, to capitalize on the worldwide demand for commercial satellite launching services. EPAC has succeeded in evolving the technology of the Peacekeeper ICBM into a commercial launch vehicle and is marketing a range of launch vehicles with payload capabilities from small communications satellites up to large multipurpose satellites of 20,000 pounds into a geosynchronous earth orbit.
Eurockot: A Joint Venture Company of Daimler-Benz Aerospace and Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center. EUROCKOT is the first cooperation between Dasa and the Russian space industry which markets launch services internationally.
HMX: HMX principals have extensive experience in innovative launch vehicle design. HMX is conducting proprietary research for a new commercial space venture, and preparing to assist an industry team developing a new bipropellant rocket engine for a space launch vehicle with thrust levels above 30,000 pounds.
International Launch Services: International Launch Services (ILS) is a joint venture established in 1995 to market two of the world's premier launch vehicles, the American-built Atlas and the Russian-built Proton.
Interorbital Systems: Founded in 1996, Interorbital Systems (IOS) is located at the Mojave Civilian Flight Test Center in Mojave, California. IOS manufactures everything in-house, including liquid rocket engines, tankage, and guidance systems. At present, IOS is developing low-cost sounding rockets. Flight tests are in progress. The Research Series and Tachyon Series rockets will soon be available to anyone looking for a low-cost sub-orbital launcher.
JP Aerospace: JPA intends to be the first amateur organization to place a payload into space. The current project is to launch a rocket with a scientific payload to an altitude of 50 miles. This will be accomplished by lofting a launch system to an altitude of 100,000 feet by balloon.
Kelly Space & Technology: Kelly Space & Technology, Inc. (KST) is an engineering design and technology development company incorporated in April 1993 under the laws of the State of California for the purpose of developing a family of low cost, reusable, commercial suborbital and orbital launch vehicles.
Kistler Aerospace: Kistler Aerospace Corporation is 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.
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 and extremely fast turn around times.
[Masten jobs]
MirCorp: MirCorp's vision of the future is to open space enterprise to private industry. Through its contractual relationship with Mir operator RSC Energia, MirCorp has leased the resources of the space station to provide direct access for a wide range of international users. MirCorp's goals are to preserve the heritage of Mir, the first international space station, through the commercialization of space enterprise.
Molniya: NPO MOLNIYA Research and Industrial Corporation was founded to create the first Russian manned reusable spacecraft in 1976. R&IC "Molniya" is the manufacturer of Buran orbiter and Russian Multipurpose Aerospace System.
OHB System: OHB-System is involved in a number of space transportation projects and initiatives in different functions. These involvements include study work for future launchers, technology development for reentry vehicles as well as provision of launch services with the Russian COSMOS launcher.
[OHB jobs]
Orbital Sciences Corporation: Orbital offers a wide variety of launch vehicles for various mission types and payload sizes. These include the Pegasus launch vehicle, the medium payload Taurus launch vehicle, smaller suborbital rockets, and the next-generation X-34 reusable launch vehicle.
[Orbital jobs]
Pioneer Rocketplane: Pioneer Rocketplane is building a highly robust and flexible space launch system based upon rocket powered aircraft and applying in-flight propellant transfer to enable inexpensive satellite launches. The new vehicles thus created will revolutionize space launch and enable greater commercial opportunities in space. This system will open the space frontier to many new and exciting applications.
[Rocketplane jobs]
Sea Launch: Sea Launch Company, LLC, is an international partnership of American, Russian, Ukrainian and Norwegian businesses that provides a reliable, cost effective, heavy lift launch service for commercial customers.
[Sea Launch jobs]
Solar Skiff: Founded in 2004, Solar Skiff is a start-up spaceplane company based in southeast Wyoming, U.S.A. Their focus is the incremental development of a safe and practical reusable launch vehicle based on sound aeronautical and astronautical principles, with the potential for high-speed intercontinental transport, single-stage-to-orbit, lunar, and interplanetary operations.
Space Launch Corporation: The Space Launch Corporation was formed to develop and bring to market innovative products for the space transportation industry. They focus primarily on the design, development, and testing of launch system technologies for the micro satellite market.
[Space launch Corp jobs]
Space Vector Corporation: Over the past 30 years, Space Vector has launched 37 rockets in support of various scientific and defense related projects with an enviable 94% success rate. Many of their vehicles are boosted by refurbished Minuteman motors that have proven to be very reliable and cost effective.
[Space Vector jobs]
SpaceX: SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to reduce the cost and increase the reliability of access to space ultimately by a factor of ten. The company officially began operations in June 2002 and is located in the heart of the aerospace industry in Southern California.
[SpaceX jobs]
Spacehab: Incorporated in 1984, SPACEHAB is a leading provider of commercial space services. As an enabler for access to space, its four business units, SPACEHAB Flight Services, SPACEHAB Government Services, Astrotech Space Operations, and Space Media, provide all levels of product and service support including research and logistics expertise and hardware, engineering and analysis services, payload processing and delivery, and space education and retail goods.
[Spacehab jobs]
Spaceport Systems International: Operated and managed by Spaceport Systems International, L.P., the Spaceport is a major provider of payload processing and launch services for both commercial and government users.
Starchaser Industries: Starchaser Industries is a privately held, high technology company that specialises in the development, operation and commercialisation of products and services which enable new space related business opportunities by providing safe, reliable, affordable and reusable access to space for both the Space Tourism and micro-satellite launch markets.
[Starchaser jobs]
Starsem: Created in 1996, Starsem offers the Soyuz for a broad range of mission needs, including satellite telecommunications systems, scientific spacecraft, and Earth observation / meteorological platforms.
TGV Rockets: TGV Rockets is an innovative start-up company pioneering a unique new class of reusable, low cost, piloted sub-orbital rocket. TGV Rockets will market vehicles and services to industry, researchers, military organizations and interested individuals. TGV Rockets intend to dominate the high altitude and sub-orbital research operations market, providing high value to customers and investors.
[TGV jobs]
TransOrbital: Transorbital® is the only private company to be authorized by the US State Department and NOAA for commercial flights to the Moon. The TrailBlazer® lunar orbiter will be the first delivery service to the Moon.
United Start: United Start Corporation is a Delaware corporation that is owned by the American company Assured Space Access, Incorporated and the Russian company ZAO Puskovie Uslugi. The company markets and performs launch services on the COSMOS 3M Launch Vehicle and the START and START-1 Space Launch Systems.
UTRON: UTRON is a small, closely held Virginia based corporation founded in 1989. UTRON personnel are experts at high velocity launch technologies, launching masses ranging in size from gms to kilograms to velocities over 7 km/s. UTRON is actively putting together a consortium of partners to pursue gun launch to space.
[UTRON jobs]
Virginia Space Flight Center: The mission of the Virginia Space Flight Center is to develop and operate a multi user spaceport at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility which provides low cost, safe, reliable, "schedule friendly" space access to commercial, government, and academic users.
XCOR Aerospace: XCOR Aerospace, Inc. is a company dedicated to commercial rockets. Founded by experts in rocket propulsion and vehicle design, XCOR supplies complete rocket aircraft design, fabrication, and test services to the emerging suborbital space transportation industry.