List of spacecraft manufacturers

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There are five major companies that build large, commercial, Geosynchronous satellite platforms:

• Alcatel Alenia Space (Europe/U.S.)
• 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 (U.S.)
• Chinese Academy of Space Technology (China)
• Hughes Aircraft (U.S.) purchased by Boeing in 2000
• Israel Aircraft Industries (Israel)
• Mitsubishi Electric (Japan)
• Northrop Grumman Space Technology (U.S.)
• Orbital Sciences Corporation (U.S.)
• RKK Energiya (Russia)
• SpaceDev (U.S.)
• Spectrum Astro (U.S.)
• Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (UK)
• Swales Aerospace (U.S.)
• Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (Ukraine)

The following non-commercial institutions have also built spacecraft (list incomplete):

• Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (U.S.)
• Air Force Research Laboratory (U.S)
• University of Texas