Companies and Agencies

Space organisations worldwide, ranked by launches and satellites

Industry / Companies

157 organisations

OrganisationCountryTypeFoundedOrbital launchesIn orbitRockets / spacecraft
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Japan Commercial 1884 43* 0 13
National Space Development Adminstration (NASDA) Japan Government / agency 1969 37* 37 0
Institute of Space and Aeronautical Sci (ISAS) Japan Government / agency 1964 30 4 0
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Japan Government / agency 2003 20* 22 6
Rocket Systems Corporation (Rocket Systems) Japan Commercial 1990 3 0 0
Space One (Space One) Japan Commercial 2018 3 0 1
Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center (CSICE) Japan Government / agency 2003 0 14 0
AXELSPACE Corporation (AXELSPACE) Japan Commercial 2008 0 13 0
Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (BSAT) Japan Commercial 1993 0 9 0
QPS Laboratories Co, Ltd. (QPS Labs) Japan Commercial 2015 0 9 0
Synspective (Synspective) Japan Commercial 2018 0 8 0
ArkEdge Space (ArkEdge) Japan Commercial 2018 0 7 0
Sky Perfect JSAT Corp. (Sky Perfect JSAT) Japan Commercial 2008 0 7 0
Space Communications Corp (SCC) Japan Commercial 1985 0 7 0
Japan Satellite Systems Inc (JSAT) Japan Commercial 1993 0 6 0
Cabinet Space Strategy Office (NUSS) Japan Government / agency 2012 0 5 0
Kyushu Instiute of Technology (Kyutech) Japan Academic / research 2004 0 4 0
Tokyo University (Tokyo) Japan Academic / research 1949 0 4 0
DSN Corporation (DSN Corp.) Japan Commercial 2012 0 3 0
Japan Space Systems (J-spacesystems) Japan Commercial 2012 0 3 0
Japanese Amateur Radio League (JARL) Japan Academic / research 1926 0 3 0
Nagoya University (Nagoya) Japan Academic / research 1939 0 3 0
Nihon Daigaku (Nihon) Japan Academic / research 1889 0 3 0
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp (NTT) Japan Commercial 1985 0 3 0
Tohoku University (Tohoku) Japan Academic / research 1907 0 3 0
Tokyo Inst of Technology (TITech) Japan Academic / research 1881 0 3 0
Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF) Japan Commercial 1986 0 2 0
Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) Japan Government / agency 1956 0 2 0
JCSAT (Japan Communications Satellite Corp), Nippon (JCSAT) Japan Commercial 1985 0 2 0
Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) Japan Academic / research 2024 0 2 0
Shizuoka University (Shizuoka U) Japan Academic / research 1949 0 2 0
Weathernews Inc. (WNI) Japan Commercial 1996 0 2 0
Aichi University of Technology (AUT) Japan Academic / research 1987 0 1 0
Aoyama Gakuin University (Aoyama Gakuin) Japan Academic / research 1949 0 1 0
Astroscale (ASC) Japan Commercial 2013 0 1 0
BULL Co. Ltd. (BULL Co.) Japan Commercial 2022 0 1 0
Canon Electronics Ltd. (Canon STL) Japan Commercial 2015 0 1 0
Chiba Institute of Technology (Chiba kogyu) Japan Academic / research 1942 0 1 0
Di-Nikko Engineering Co. Ltd. (Di-Nikko) Japan Commercial 1979 0 1 0
GITAI Japan Inc. (GITAI Japan) Japan Commercial 2023 0 1 0
Happy Science University (Happy Sci U) Japan Academic / research 2015 0 1 0
Hokkaido University (Hokkaidodai) Japan Academic / research 1876 0 1 0
IHI Corporation (IHI Corp) Japan Commercial 2007 0 1 0
Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) Japan Commercial 1925 0 1 0
Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (Board) (JCAB) Japan Government / agency 0 1 0
Kagawa Daigaku (Kagawa U.) (Kagawa U) Japan Academic / research 1949 0 1 0
Kanazawa University (Kanazawa U) Japan Academic / research 1949 0 1 0
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Aerospace Co. (Kawasaki) Japan Commercial 1954 0 1 0

* Includes launches and satellites of the organisation's subsidiaries, divisions and sites, which are listed on its page.

Launch and satellite data: Jonathan McDowell's GCAT (CC BY 4.0) and CelesTrak. Rockets, spacecraft and agencies: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs and Wikidata. News headlines link to their publishers via the Spaceflight News API and RSS feeds. Records come from several sources and are matched automatically, so treat the directory as a research aid, not an authority. How the data is built and checked.