Companies and Agencies

Space organisations worldwide, ranked by launches and satellites

Industry / Companies

2,723 organisations

OrganisationCountryTypeFoundedOrbital launchesIn orbitRockets / spacecraft
Kaiser-Fleetwings (Kaiser-Fleetwings) United States Commercial 1943 0 0 0
Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) Japan Academic / research 1975 0 0 0
Kanatta Co. Ltd. (Kanatta Co) Japan Commercial 2023 0 0 0
Kansai University (Kansai U) Japan Academic / research 1886 0 0 0
Katalyst Space (KTLST) United States Commercial 2020 0 0 0
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Lithuania Academic / research 1920 0 0 0
Kayser-Threde GmbH (Kayser-Threde) Germany Commercial 1967 0 0 0
Kazakh Air Defense Forces (Kazakh AF) Kazakhstan Government / agency 1998 0 0 0
Kazakh Space Research Institute (SRI) Kazakhstan Academic / research 0 0 0
Kazan Aviation Institute (KAI) Academic / research 1932 0 0 0
Kazan National Research Technical University (KNRTU-KAI) Russia Academic / research 1992 0 0 0
KB Energomash (Energomash) Russia Government / agency 1967 0 0 0
KB KhimAvtomatiki (KBKhA) Russia Government / agency 1967 0 0 0
KB Khimmash (KB Khimmash) Government / agency 1966 0 0 0
KB Mashinostroeniye (SKB-101) (KBM) Government / agency 1942 0 0 0
KB Mashinostroyeniya Russia Government / agency 0 0 1
KB Perm Motorostroitel (KB Perm) Russia Government / agency 1992 0 0 0
KB Salyut (KB Salyut) Russia Government / agency 1981 0 0 0
KB-1 OKB-41 (Savin) (KB-1) Government / agency 1962 0 0 0
KBP (Instrument Design Bureau) (TSKB-14) (KBP Tula) Government / agency 1946 0 0 0
Keio University (Keio U) Japan Academic / research 1858 0 0 0
Keldysh Research Center (KeRC) Russia Government / agency 1992 0 0 0
Ken Chan (Kensat) (Ken Chan) United States Academic / research 2026 0 0 0
Kentucky Space, Kentucky Science and Technology Corp. (Kentucky Space) United States Academic / research 2008 0 0 0
Kenya Space Agency (Kenya Space) Kenya Government / agency 2017 0 0 0
Key Lab of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration (LDSE) China Government / agency 2015 0 0 0
Khan Research Laboratories, Kahuta (KRL) Pakistan Government / agency 1984 0 0 0
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (KhSC) Russia Government / agency 1916 0 0 21
Kiel University (Kiel) Germany Academic / research 1665 0 0 0
Kindai University (Kindai) Japan Academic / research 1925 0 0 0
King Saud University (King Saud U) Saudi Arabia Academic / research 1957 0 0 0
Kiruna Geophysical Institute (KGI) Sweden Government / agency 1973 0 0 0
Kiruna Geophysical Observatory (KGO) Sweden Government / agency 1957 0 0 0
Kitt Peak National Observatory, Cherry St Building (KPNO) United States Academic / research 1960 0 0 0
Kobe University (Kobe) Japan Academic / research 1949 0 0 0
Koku Ucyu Gijyutsu Kenkyujyo (National Aerospace Lab) (NAL) Japan Government / agency 1961 0 0 0
Komitet gosudarstvennoy besopasnosti SSSR (KGB) Government / agency 1954 0 0 0
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) Norway Commercial 0 0 0
Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van Belgie (Observatoire Royal de Belgique) (ROB) Belgium Government / agency 1890 0 0 0
Konkoly Observatory (Konkoly) Hungary Academic / research 1871 0 0 0
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) South Korea Academic / research 1971 0 0 0
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) South Korea Commercial 1999 0 0 0
Korean Air Force Academy (KAFA) South Korea Government / agency 1949 0 0 0
Korean Astronaut Program (KAP) South Korea Government / agency 2006 0 0 0
Korean People's Army (KPA) North Korea Government / agency 1948 0 0 0
Korolev Aviation Institute (KAI) Commercial 1967 0 0 0
KP Labs (KP Labs) Poland Commercial 2016 0 0 0
Kraksat (Kraksat) Poland Academic / research 2018 0 0 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.