Companies and Agencies

Space organisations worldwide, ranked by launches and satellites

Industry / Companies

2,723 organisations

OrganisationCountryTypeFoundedOrbital launchesIn orbitRockets / spacecraft
UK Meteorological Office, Air Ministry (UK MO) United Kingdom Government / agency 1962 0 0 0
UK Ministry Of Defence (UKMOD) United Kingdom Government / agency 0 0 0
UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) United Kingdom Government / agency 1994 0 0 0
UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) United Kingdom Government / agency 2007 0 0 0
UK Science Research Council (SRC) United Kingdom Government / agency 1965 0 0 0
UK Space Operations Centre, Royal Air Force High Wycombe (RAF Space Ops) United Kingdom Government / agency 2016 0 0 0
UK Space Operations Coordination Centre, RAF High Wycombe (RAF Space Ops) United Kingdom Government / agency 1957 0 0 0
UK War Office (UK WO) United Kingdom Government / agency 1684 0 0 0
Ukrainian Air Force (Ukrainian AF) Ukraine Government / agency 1992 0 0 0
United Aircraft and Transport Corporation (United Aircraft) United States Commercial 1929 0 0 0
United Launch Alliance (ULA) United States Commercial 2006 0 0 34
United Space Alliance (USA) United States Commercial 1995 0 0 0
United States Departement of Defense (DoD) United States Government / agency 1947 0 0 0
United States House of Representatives (US House) United States Government / agency 1789 0 0 0
United States Marine Corps (USMC) United States Government / agency 1798 0 0 0
United States Senate (US Senate) United States Government / agency 1789 0 0 0
United Technologies Corp. (UTC) United States Commercial 1975 0 0 0
Universdad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) Argentina Academic / research 1897 0 0 0
Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Bayamon (UIPR Bayamon) Puerto Rico Academic / research 1956 0 0 0
Universite de Paris-la Sorbonne, Faculte des Sciences (Paris) France Academic / research 1808 0 0 0
Universite' d'Orleans (Orleans) France Academic / research 1230 0 0 0
Universite' de Liege (Liege) Belgium Academic / research 1817 0 0 0
Universiteit Leiden (Leiden) Netherlands Academic / research 1575 0 0 0
Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht) Netherlands Academic / research 1636 0 0 0
University Aeronautical Institute (IUA Cordoba) Argentina Academic / research 1991 0 0 0
University College Dublin (UC Dublin) Ireland Academic / research 1854 0 0 0
University College of Wales (UCW) United Kingdom Academic / research 1872 0 0 0
University College, London (UCL) United Kingdom Academic / research 1826 0 0 0
University of Adelaide (Adelaide) Australia Academic / research 1874 0 0 0
University of Alabama (U Alabama) United States Academic / research 1820 0 0 0
University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt (FHWN) Austria Academic / research 1994 0 0 0
University of Arkansas (U. Arkansas) United States Academic / research 1871 0 0 0
University of Bergen (Bergen) Norway Academic / research 1946 0 0 0
University of Brasilia (Uni. Brasilia) Brazil Academic / research 1962 0 0 0
University of Bremen (U. Bremen) Germany Academic / research 1971 0 0 0
University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada Academic / research 1915 0 0 0
University of Bucharest (U. Bucharest) Romania Academic / research 1864 0 0 0
University of California Davis (UC Davis) United States Academic / research 0 0 0
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) United States Academic / research 0 0 0
University of California San Diego (UCSD) United States Academic / research 1960 0 0 0
University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF Med Ctr) United States Academic / research 1907 0 0 0
University of Cambridge (Cambridge) United Kingdom Academic / research 1209 0 0 0
University of Cantebury (UCant) New Zealand Academic / research 1873 0 0 0
University of Central Florida (UC Central Fla) United States Academic / research 0 0 0
University of Chicago (Chicago) United States Academic / research 1891 0 0 0
University of Cologne (Koln) Germany Academic / research 1919 0 0 0
University of Dayton (U. Dayton) United States Academic / research 1850 0 0 0
University of Denver (Denver) United States Academic / research 1864 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.