Member Organizations
Over two dozen businesses and organizations are members of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. Executive Members include commercial spaceflight developers, operators, and spaceports, and Associate Members include suppliers supporting commercial spaceflight, such as providers of mission support services or training services. Click on a company name to jump down the page to a detailed description, or scroll down this page to see the entire list.
EXECUTIVE MEMBERS
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Armadillo Aerospace
Armadillo Aerospace is a leading developer of reusable rocket powered vehicles, focused on VTVL (vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing) suborbital research and passenger flights, with an eye towards eventual paths to orbit. |
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Bigelow Aerospace Bigelow Aerospace, headquartered in Nevada, is a general contractor providing design, engineering, fabrication, testing, assembly, and marketing of future orbital space complexes. Bigelow Aerospace has already successfully launched and deployed two pathfinder spacecraft, Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, launched in 2006 and 2007 respectively. Bigelow Aerospace is currently constructing the habitats and hardware that will comprise the world’s first private sector space station. |
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Excalibur Almaz Excalibur Almaz Ltd will offer personal spaceflights and microgravity experiment flights in Low Earth Orbit, using modernized Almaz spacecraft. It is headquartered on the Isle of Man, with a subsidiary, Excalibur Almaz USA, in Houston, and offices in Moscow and Santa Monica, California. |
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Jacksonville - Cecil Field Spaceport Cecil Field Spaceport (airport code VQQ) is located approximately 15 miles west of downtown Jacksonville, Florida, and is one of five airports run by the Jacksonville Aviation Authority. As a decommissioned naval airbase, Cecil Field has four, 200-foot runways, including one of the longest runways in Florida. Using this infrastructure, Cecil FIeld is preparing to become a base for suborbital commercial human spaceflight in Florida. |
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Masten Space Systems Masten Space Systems is developing a line of Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing (VTVL) launch vehicles that provide reduced costs and a larger range of mission options by focusing on development and operational processes that ensure speed to market, extremely fast turn around times, and an almost retail purchasing experience. |
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Mojave Spaceport Located in Kern County, California, the Mojave Air and Space Port is recognized as the world's premier civilian aerospace test center and is currently home to over 40 companies engaged in flight development to light industrial to highly advanced aerospace design, flight test and research and even heavy rail industrial manufacturing. The Mojave Air and Space Port has amassed more first flights and significant news worthy flight activity than any other airport in the world over the past five years, and in 2004 hosted the Ansari X PRIZE winning suborbital space flights of SpaceShipOne. |
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Sierra Nevada Corporation Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is a progressive defense electronics engineering and manufacturing enterprise. SNC is a full service company experienced in research, development, manufacturing and logistical support. The Space Systems business area of Sierra Nevada Corporation was established in 2009 with the combination of SNC subsidiary MicroSat Systems; SpaceDev, which was acquired by SNC in late 2008; and Starsys, which was acquired by SpaceDev in 2006. MicroSat Systems, SpaceDev, and Starsys have a combined twenty year history in space, providing hardware for over 300 Earth orbiting and interplanetary missions. SNC's home office is located in Sparks, Nevada, adjacent to Reno. SNC has over 1600 employees with 35 office locations in 20 states across the United States. |
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Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), which has committed funding to fly researcher-astronauts and their payloads onboard commercial suborbital spacecraft, is an independent, nonprofit applied research and development organization. The staff of more than 3,200 specializes in the creation and transfer of technology in engineering and the physical sciences. The Institute occupies more than 1,200 acres in San Antonio, Texas with laboratories, test facilities, workshops and offices, with satellite offices in locations such as Boulder, Colorado. SwRI staff also lead the CSF's Suborbital Applications Researchers Group. |
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Space Adventures Space Adventures, the company that organized the flights for the world’s first private space explorers: Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Greg Olsen, Anousheh Ansari and Charles Simonyi, is headquartered in Vienna, Va. with an office in Moscow. It offers a variety of programs such as the availability today for spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and around the moon, Zero-Gravity flights, cosmonaut training, spaceflight qualification programs and reservations on future suborbital spacecrafts. |
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Space Florida Space Florida is the public-private partnership responsible for promoting and developing Florida's aerospace industry. Space Florida was created by the Florida Legislature to sustain Florida's position as the global space leader. |
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Spaceport America In 2006, the New Mexico State Legislature approved over $100 million in funds to design and construct a commercial spaceport in southern New Mexico, also known as “Spaceport America.” A landmark project, Spaceport America is poised to become one of the world's leading commercial spaceport centers to be completed in Sierra County, 45 miles northeast of Las Cruces. In 2005, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Sir Richard Branson announced that Virgin Galactic plans on locating its world headquarters and Mission Control at New Mexico’s Spaceport America. |
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SpaceX SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles and spacecraft intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of both manned and unmanned space transportation, ultimately by a factor of ten. With the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 vehicles, SpaceX offers highly reliable/cost-efficient launch capabilities for spacecraft insertion into any orbital altitude and inclination. Starting in 2010, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will provide Earth-to-LEO transport of pressurized and unpressurized cargo, including resupply to the International Space Station (ISS). Founded in 2002, the SpaceX team now numbers over 700, with corporate headquarters in Hawthorne, California. |
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United Launch Alliance Formed in December 2006, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a 50-50 joint venture owned by Lockheed Martin and The Boeing Company. ULA brings together two of the launch industry's most experienced and successful teams – Atlas and Delta – that have supported America's presence in space for fifty years. The United Launch Alliance team consists of approximately 3,900 employees working at sites across the country. ULA program management, engineering, test and mission support functions are headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Manufacturing, assembly and integration operations are located at Decatur, Ala., Denver, CO., Harlingen, TX., and San Diego, CA. Launch operations are located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, and at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. |
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Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic is the world’s first spaceline. Virgin Galactic will own and operate its privately built spaceships modelled on the remarkable, history-making SpaceShipOne. Virgin’s vast experience in aviation, adventure, luxury travel and cutting-edge design combined with the unique technology developed by Burt Rutan will ensure an unforgettable experience unlike any other available to mankind. With safety at the forefront, Virgin Galactic’s unique spacecraft is being designed at Rutan’s base in Mojave, California alongside a concerted research and development programme. |
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XCOR Aerospace Founded in 1999, XCOR Aerospace is a small, privately-held California C-Corporation. XCOR's headquarters and development facilities are located at the Mojave Spaceport and Civilian Aerospace Test Center in Mojave, California. XCOR engages in research, development, and production of reusable rocket-powered, horizontal launch vehicles for suborbital, and ultimately, orbital travel. |
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X PRIZE Foundation The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured world headlines when Burt Rutan, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and flew the world’s first private vehicle to space to win the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE. The Foundation has since launched the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, and the $10 million Progressive Automotive X PRIZE. The Foundation is creating prizes in five areas: Exploration (Space and Underwater), Life Sciences, Energy & Environment, Education and Global Development. The Foundation is widely recognized as the leading model for fostering innovation through competition. |
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| Andrews Space, Inc. Headquartered in Seattle, Andrews Space, Inc. was founded to be a catalyst in the commercialization and development of space. Andrews Space has been developing innovative space and aerospace systems for NASA, the Department of Defense, and commercial customers since the company's inception in 1999. Andrews Space has been involved in initiatives including commercial crew and cargo, operationally responsive spacelift, NASA exploration, and hypersonic platforms. |
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| DCI Services and Consulting Headquartered in Houston, TX, near the Johnson Space Center, DCI Services and Consulting is an engineering consulting firm focused on aerospace and systems engineering, technical management, and strategic business development. DCI is currently providing services to participants in NASA's Commercial Crew Development Program and is engaged on topics such as safety standards for commercial spaceflight, commercial business models and procurement, and Space Station utilization. |
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Environmental Tectonics Corporation (ETC) – NASTAR Center ETC's NASTAR Center houses state-of-the-art equipment and professional staff to support the training and research needs of the aerospace community, including military aviation (fixed and rotary wing), civil aviation (fixed and rotary wing), space travel (government and private) and research support and data collection. NASTAR Center's equipment and programs are highly modular and flexible and can accommodate a wide range of aerospace training and research requirements. |
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Jacobs Technology Jacobs Technology is the advanced technology division of Jacobs Engineering, one of the nation's largest engineering and technical services-only companies. |
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MEI Technologies MEI Technologies, Inc. provides technical solutions to the commercial and federal technology markets. Founded in 1992 as Muñiz Engineering, the company employs more than 800 individuals that serve more than 60 clients in the civil, commercial and defense industries. Headquartered in Houston, the company operates satellite offices in seven additional states: Colorado (Denver and Colorado Springs), New Mexico (Albuquerque and White Sands Test Facility); Alabama (Huntsville), Maryland (Greenbelt), Georgia (Marietta), Mississippi (Stennis Space Center), and California (San Jose and Los Angeles). |
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Oklahoma Spaceport The Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority is resolved to create in this decade a commercial spaceport that will expand and economically develop the space frontier with advanced spacecraft operation facilities and concentrations of specialized industries in Oklahoma. |
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Paragon Space Development Corporation Founded in 1993, Paragon Space Development Corporation is a full-service aerospace engineering and technology development firm. Paragon is a major supplier of Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) and sub-system design for the aerospace industry with expertise in thermal control for orbiting and re-entering spacecraft and hyper-velocity aircraft. |
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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a part of Pratt & Whitney, is a preferred provider of high-value propulsion, power, energy and innovative system solutions used in a wide variety of government and commercial applications, including the main engines for the space shuttle, Atlas and Delta launch vehicles, missile defense systems and advanced hypersonic engines. |
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Raytheon With a history of innovation spanning 88 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. |
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Scaled Composites Scaled Composites, LLC, is an aerospace and specialty composites development company located in Mojave, California (about 80 miles north of Los Angeles). Founded in 1982 by Burt Rutan, Scaled has broad experience in air vehicle design, tooling, and manufacturing, specialty composite structure design, analysis and fabrication, and developmental flight test. Sir Richard Branson (Founder, Virgin Group of Companies) and Burt Rutan (President, Scaled Composites) have announced their signing of an agreement to form a new aerospace production company to build a fleet of commercial sub-orbital spaceships and launch aircraft. The new company will own the designs of the new SpaceShipTwo (SS2) and White Knight Two (WK2) launch systems that are now in development at Scaled Composites. |
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Special Aerospace Services Special Aerospace Services is a small, woman-owned, innovative aerospace services and solutions company. Special Aerospace Services (SAS) provides experienced program support in the areas of launch vehicles, spacecraft systems, space system engineering, human rating and SpaceFlight Safety (TM). SAS supports U.S. and International customers, including NASA's CCDev and COTS Programs, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and commercial launch service providers. |
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SRA International Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, SRA provides the expert knowledge, technical tools and solutions that governments, agencies and companies need to improve performance, reduce costs and risks, introduce enterprise efficiencies and enhance human health. For complex space-based programs, SRA’s Intelligence & Space Sector delivers products and services at every phase – from mission concept through spacecraft retirement. |
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Wyle Laboratories Wyle, a privately held company, is a leading provider of high tech aerospace engineering and information technology services to the federal government on long-term outsourcing contracts. The company also provides life sciences services for NASA’s astronaut corps as well as mission critical support including launch services and space simulation; test and evaluation of aircraft, weapon systems, networks, and other government assets; and other engineering services to the aerospace, defense, nuclear power, communications and transportation industries. |
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Aeroports de Catalunya Aeroports de Catalunya is a public company, promoted by the Catalan government and attached to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and Public Works. It manages airports, airfields or heliports which form part of the company or of the Catalan government. Aeroports de Catalunya is developing an airport-based spaceport for suborbital space missions. |
