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 & Technologies Corp. (U.S.)
- Chinese Academy of Space Technology (China)
- Hughes Aircraft (U.S.) purchased by Boeing in 2000
- Israel Aircraft Industries (Israel)
- MicroSat Systems. inc. (U.S.)
- 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):
- Air Force Research Laboratory (U.S)
- Aeronautical Development Agency (India)
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (India)
- Indian Space Research Organisation
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (U.S.)
- University of Colorado at Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
- University of Texas
