List of spacecraft manufacturers
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There are five major companies that build large, commercial, Geosynchronous satellite platforms:
- Alcatel Alenia Space, now Thales Alenia Space (Europe)
- Boeing (U.S.)
- Astrium Satellites, a Business Unit of EADS Astrium (Europe)
- Lockheed Martin (U.S.)
- Space Systems/Loral (U.S.)
In addition to those above, the following companies have successfully built and launched satellite platforms:
- AeroAstro, Inc. (U.S.)
- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (U.S.)
- British Aerospace (U.K.)
- China Academy of Space Technology, a sub-company of CASC (China)
- Fokker Space & Systems, now Dutch Space (The Netherlands)
- General Electric (U.S.)
- Hughes Aircraft (U.S.) purchased by Boeing in 2000
- Israel Aircraft Industries (Israel)
- S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Russia)
- Khrunichev State Space Scientific Production Center (Russia) manned space stations Mir and Salyut
- NPO Lavochkin (Russia) Planetary and Lunar spacecraft
- MicroSat Systems. inc. (U.S.)
- Mitsubishi Electric (Japan)
- Northrop Grumman Space Technology (U.S.)
- Orbital Sciences Corporation (U.S.)
- Philco Ford (U.S.) now Space Systems/Loral
- NPO PM (Russia) ru:НПО ПМ now M.F. Reshetnev Satellite Systems Company
- RCA Astro (U.S.) purchased by General electric
- Rockwell (U.S.) purchased by Boeing
- RKK Energiya (Russia) - Sputnik-1 world's first satellite
- SPAR Aerospace (Canada)
- SpaceDev (U.S.)
- Spectrum Astro (U.S.)
- Sun Space and Information Systems (Pty) Ltd (RSA)
- Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (UK)
- Swales Aerospace (U.S.)
- TRW (U.S.)
- Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (Ukraine)
The following non-commercial institutions have also built spacecraft (list incomplete):
- Air Force Research Laboratory (U.S.)
- Amsat - international consortium of Amateur radio operators with branches in several countries
- Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
- Redstone Arsenal (U.S. (Army)) Explorer-1, first US satellite
- Aeronautical Development Agency (India)
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (India)
- Indian Space Research Organisation(India)
- European Space Agency (Europe)
- European Space Research Organization (Europe) - precursor to ESA
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (U.S.)
- NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)
- Royal Aircraft Establishment (U.K.)
- University of Colorado at Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
- University of Texas
- Weapons Research Establishment (Australia)
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