This article is a list of non-governmental, or privately owned, entities focused on developing and/or offering equipment and services geared towards

spaceflight Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly spacecraft into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such as satellites in ...

, both robotic and

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. The list includes both inactive and active entities.

Commercial astronauts

* Association of Spaceflight Professionals —

Astronaut training Astronaut training describes the complex process of preparing astronauts in regions around the world for their space missions before, during and after the flight, which includes medical tests, physical training, extra-vehicular activity (EVA) trai ...

, applied research and development, payload testing and integration, mission planning and operations support ( Christopher Altman, Soyeon Yi)Seedhouse, Erik.
Astronauts for Hire: The Emergence of the World's First Commercial Astronaut Corps
'' Springer-Verlag: New York (2012).

Manufacturers of space vehicles

Cargo transport vehicles

Crew transport vehicles

Orbital

:''* - Format: Crewed (Uncrewed), includes failures''

Suborbital

:''* - Format: Crewed (Uncrewed), includes failures''

Launch vehicle manufacturers

Landers, rovers and orbiters

Research craft and tech demonstrators

Propulsion manufacturers

Satellite launchers

Space-based economy

Space manufacturing

Space mining

Space stations

Space settlement

Spacecraft component developers and manufacturers

Spaceliner companies

References

External links

CubeSat Database & Nanosatellites

NewSpace Index
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