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Research

Research in the space context encompasses a wide range of scientific investigations, from studying celestial bodies to advancing propulsion technologies and materials. Academic institutions, research organizations, and space agencies contribute to space-related research.

This is a list of companies and organizations active in this business area.

  • Acoustic Research Systems Inc

    Acoustic Research Systems Inc is a company in the space industry.
    Founded for the sole purpose of providing revolutionary new products and services for customers seeking the next generation of ultra-high-output acoustic testing solutions, Acoustic Research Systems is a world-leading full-service provider of acoustic testing services.

  • AES Aircraft Elektro / Elektronik System GmbH

    AES Aircraft Elektro / Elektronik System GmbH is an EASA-approved production and maintenance company. It provides the aerospace industry with electrical hardware and engineering services.

  • Aiko Srl

    Aiko Srl is a deep-tech company delivering state-of-the-art artificial Intelligence solutions for flight and ground software with the goal of enabling autonomous space missions. Aiko was the first European company to demonstrate deep learning algorithms orbit, achieving TRL 9 for payload data processing algorithms.

  • Alma Sistemi SAS

    Alma Sistemi SAS is a company in the space industry.

  • ARCA Dynamics

    ARCA Dynamics is an Innovative Startup (Italian law n. 221/2012) active in the
    field of Space technology R&D. The company provides enabling technologies
    for space proximity operations (collision avoidance, rendezvous, docking,
    undocking, berthing, capture, etc.) while increasing space automation.

  • ARIS

    ARIS (Akademische Raumfahrt Initiative Schweiz) brings together students from Swiss universities fascinated by space exploration. Formed around ETH Zurich, HSLU, ZHAW, UZH and OST. They engage their members in engineering challenges by integrating theory and practice. ARIS combine Inspiration for space exploration, hands-on project work and personal development.

  • Best of Space - ESA BIC-ESA SME- SME4SPACE

    Best of Space - ESA BIC-ESA SME- SME4SPACE is a company in the space industry.
    ESA Space Solutions is the go-to place for great business ideas involving space in all areas of society and economy. Its mission is to support entrepreneurs in Europe in the development of business using satellite applications and space technology.

  • Bremen & Bremerhaven - City of Space

    Bremen & Bremerhaven - City of Space is a company in the space industry.
    Welcome to Bremen, the City of Space. Bremen's aerospace industry com more than 140 companies and 20 institutes, employs over 12,000 people and generates revenue in excess of (US$3.9 bn) a year. Bremen has more space aeronautics and aerospace experts as a percentage of its population than anywhere else in Germany.

  • CATE Srl

    CATE Srl's main feature is to realize test systems, test rigs and test cells to increase safety guarantee standards and sales requirements and objectively guarantee the quality of the product.

  • Comoti

    Comoti integrates scientific research, engineering, technological design, manufacturing and testing activities for aerospace, defense and energy sectors. It has developed or has under development different space equipment, including mechanisms, pumps sample containers MGSEs propulsion systems, cryogenic tank, anti-vortex devices and diffusers and turbopump test benches (with water).

  • CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA

    CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA is a Swiss research and technology organization with 35 years of space and astrophysics heritage. It operates from TRL2 to TRL9. CSEM develops high precision, frictionless space mechanisms, relying on metal additive manufacturing, liders and stabilized lasers as well as damping systems for microvibration reduction.

  • Czech Aerospace Research Centre

    Czech Aerospace Research Centre is a company in the space industry.
    VZLU is the center for research, development, innovation and testing for the aerospace industry. VZLU's mission is to build knowledge and solutions in the field of aeronautical and space technologies, thus contributing to expansion of knowledge and competitiveness in the aerospace industry.

  • Dassault Systèmes Deutschland GmbH

    Dassault Systèmes Deutschland GmbH provides business and people with 3DEXPERIENCE universes to imagine sustainable innovations capable of harmonizing product, nature and life

  • Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering

    Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE) is one of the most advanced amateur rocketry societies in the world. Founded in 2001, it is a group of over 200 ambitious students sharing an intense passion for rocket science. DARE designs, builds and launches rockets that serve a scientific and educational purpose.

  • DLR eV

    DLR eV conducts research and development activities in the fields of aeronautics space, energy, transportation, security and digitalization. The German Space Agency at DLR plans and implements the national space program on behalf of the federal government. Two DLR project management agencies oversee funding programs and support knowledge transfer.

  • Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company

    Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Companydelivers mission-critical solutions for missiles, launch vehicles, satellites (separation and dispensing) and manned spacecraft. EBAD is a global leader in non-pyro and pyro hold-down and release mechanism (HDRM) with over two decades of on-orbit experience with 100% mission success. 

  • ESA Space Solutions Centre Ireland

    ESA Space Solutions Centre Ireland facilitates access to ESA programs, promotes the adoption of space solutions and supports the development of Irish companies, new and existing, in space and downstream sectors. The center incorporates the ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) for Ireland.

  • fentiSS

    fentiSS is an advanced technology company that provides software solutions enabling critical and non-critical applications to share a common hardware platform without interfering with one another (virtualization).

  • Ferdinand-Braun-Institut - Leibniz-Institut fuer Hoechstfrequenztechnik

    Ferdinand-Braun-Institut - Leibniz-Institut fuer Hoechstfrequenztechnik is a research institute with wide experience in the field of III-V semiconductor-based components and subsystems for space applications, working on projects with NASA, ESA and DLR. R&D projects include optical communications, quantum optical metrology, beam steering technologies and energy-efficient electronics for satellites.

  • FOTONIKA-LV

    FOTONIKA-LV, the national science platform in quantum science. space science and related technologies at the University of Latvia, will present space capacity at the university. The institute of Astronomy (www.astr.lu.lv) runs an astrophysical observatory and astronomy observatory operating an SLR station with the ILRS code name RIGL-1884.

  • Fraunhofer AVIATION & SPACE

    Fraunhofer AVIATION & SPACE is a company in the space industry.
    Bringing together the skills of 27 Fraunhofer Institutes, Fraunhofer Aviation & Space conducts applied research in the field of aerospace.

  • Fraunhofer IIS

    Fraunhofer IIS develops communication solutions that connect people and systems via satellite. Besides overall system and architecture definition, they focus on related transmission technologies and individual components such as antennas, transmitters and receivers and provide ground station technologies, test equipment and offer measuring and test facilities for validation.

  • GF Casting Solutions AG

    GF Casting Solutions AG is one of the leading providers of lightweight components in the mobility and energy industry. As a future-oriented company, it acts as a driving force for innovation in the casting and additive manufacturing world, aiming to shape the development of sustainable mobility. 

  • Harp Technologies Ltd

    Harp Technologies Ltd is a privately owned SME, founded in 2007. it specializes in the research and development of RF, microwave and millimeter-wave technology and real-time signal processing electronics. Its main customers, private and institutional, operate in the domains of defense, remote sensing, and wireless and IoT.

  • Huntsville - Madison County Chamber

    Huntsville - Madison County Chamber serves as the catalyst for economic development activities in our community. It serves as a single point of contact for prospective and existing businesses in their efforts to establish a new business or to expand existing operations.

  • Indaero Grupo Emergy

    Indaero Grupo Emergy has been a leading supplier of high-performance machining parts, housings and electronic enclosures for space and defense for 15 years. Its technology offers high added-value thanks to the company's large investment in R&D activities. It provides engineering services, from detail parts to turnkey solutions.

  • Innovative Sensor Technology IST AG

    Innovative Sensor Technology IST AG manufactures thin-film platinum and nickel RTD temperature sensors, capacity humidity sensors and calibrated humidity modules, thermal mass flow sensors, conductivity, biosensors and thermal infrared emitters. A highly qualified technical team offers consulting, development and production of challenging customer requests in the field of micro system technology.

  • Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC)

    Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) recognized as a Spanish center of excellence, is a state-funded research center that manages two of the best international astronomical observatories in the world: the Roque de los Muchachos on Teide Observatories, housing the largest optical-infrared telescope in the world. GTC.

  • ispace Europe SA

    ispace Europe SAis a lunar exploration company with more than 200 staff across Japan, Europe, and the US. With its first mission currently planned for November 2022, ispace has raised more than US$200m to build commercial lunar landers and rovers aimed at offering high-frequency, low-cost delivery service to the moon.

  • Julabo GmbH

    Julabo GmbH delivers professional temperature control systems. More than 450,000 Julabo units in the field around the world demonstrate a high level of acceptance among users in research and industry.

  • Just Vacuum GmbH

    Just Vacuum GmbH is a company in the space industry.
    Just Vacuum-your partner in space simulation. Are you looking for an expert in thermal vacuum technology? Just Vacuum offers thermal vacuum chambers and thermal vacuum test capacities for your space technology components up to complete satellites. Its team is your powerful partner in all ranges of the vacuum.

  • Lukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Aviation

    Lukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Aviation is a leading center of research for aerospace tech. Its experience includes sounding rockets, research on fuels, oxidizers for space propulsion, development of small thrusters for satellite application, active deorbitation systems, remote sensing, development of avionics systems for rockets and aircraft.

  • Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

    Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) is a mission-driven research and technology organization that develops advanced technologies and delivers innovative products and services to industry and society. LIST supports the deployment of solutions to a wide range of sectors, including space, energy, mobility, finance, logistics, construction, agriculture and advanced manufacturing.

  • Maana Electric

    Maana Electric is a company in the space industry.
    Founded in Luxembourg in 2018 with the goal of providing energy resources both on Earth and in space through in situ resource utilization technologies, Maana Electric uses ISRU technologies to produce complex products, such as solar panel using the locally available material (sand on Earth and regolith on the moon).

  • Magdrive

    Magdrive is developing the next generation of space propulsion for satellites, with high thrust and high efficiency in a small and powerful electric plasma thruster.

  • Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG

    Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG is a company in the space industry.
    Magna Aerospace a reliable partner for the global space and aeronautics industry. Magna can look back on more than 20 years of experience in the development and manufacture of components and systems for the aerospace business.

  • MathWorks

    MathWorksis a leading developer of mathematical computing software. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on its MATLAB and Simulink product families to accelerate the pace of R&D in the aerospace industry. Founded in 1984, MathWorks employs more than 5,000 people in 16 countries with headquarters in the USA.

  • NLR - Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre

    NLR - Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre is a company in the space industry.
    The Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre will assist you in the development of launchers or satellites, or to support you in the application of space assets and data, we have a broad range of capabilities available.

  • Oerlikon AM Europe GmbH

    Oerlikon AM Europe GmbH is a leading provider of additive manufacturing solutions with metals and polymers. The extensive portfolio offered by Oerlikon AM ranges from the co-development and contract manufacturing of high-quality and performance-optimized components, through research and development, to the production of the company's own metal powders for 3D printing.

  • Pale Blue Inc

    Pale Blue Inc is a startup from Tokyo University founded in 2020. The company is dedicated to water-based thrusters innovation for small satellites. Through its water-based propulsion technology, Pale Blue aims to develop a space ecosystem where in-space mobility is not only affordable but safe to humans and the surrounding environment.

  • Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau AG

    Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau AG is a technology leader for high-precision thermoregulation solutions in research and industry. Its products ensure precise temperature control in laboratories, pilot plants and production from -125°C to 425°C. Huber units are used for environment simulations, material testing and temperature-dependent stress and loading tests.

  • PlasmaBound

    PlasmaBound is an Irish deep-tech technology company providing licensed access to transformative technologies in automotive, aerospace, space and other sectors. Its CPA directly supports EU Green Deal objectives, specifically for sustainable manufacturing, but also promotes circular economy goals through seamless integration of recyclable composites.

  • S.A.T.E. Systems and Advanced Technologies Engineering Srl

    S.A.T.E. Systems and Advanced Technologies Engineering Srl is an R&D and engineering company founded in 1998, providing advanced and leading customized software products and services for simulation diagnostics and data mining in the automotive, space and energy fields, with a strong multidisciplinary and system engineering approach.

  • sat:lo, Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart

    sat:lo, Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart is a spin-off of the Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart. sat:io offers a full-stack solution of the ground segment, which includes a multi-mission-capable operating system with the possibility to develop, integrate and use applications based on it.

  • Satellite Applications Catapult

    Satellite Applications Catapult is an independent innovation and technology company created by innovate UK to drive economic growth through the exploitation of space. It works with businesses of all sizes to realize their potential from space infrastructure and its applications.

  • Science and Technology Facilities Council

    Science and Technology Facilities Council is a company in the space industry.
    RAL Space and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC) are part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council(STFC) and are at the forefront of the astronomy and space community, providing world-leading research technology development and test facilities.

  • SME4SPACE

    SME4SPACE is the representative organization of European space SMEs from the European Space Agency and European Union member states. SME4SPACE is a not-for-profit association under the Belgian Law and was incorporated in 2011. Therefore, this year it is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

  • Sodern

    Sodern relies on more than 50 years of experience in optronics (star trackers, cameras) and neutron technology to develop innovative and competitive solutions for customers. Sodern's institutional clients' high levels of requirement have led the firm to develop extraordinary expertise that benefits stakeholders in space, mining, industry and research.

  • Space Applications Services NV SA

    Space Applications Services NV SA is a company in the space industry.
    Among its services, the international Commercial Experiments Cubes service (ICE Cubes) provides rapid, simplified and affordable access to the International Space Station under a public/private partnership with ESA. The service will enable any organisation's experiment to be launched to the Space Station.

  • spaceutilitydrones.com

    spaceutilitydrones.com is a company in the space industry.

  • Stratosyt s.r.o.

    Stratosyt s.r.o. has a unique solution for long-time positing-keeping. High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) offers easy maintenance, flexibility, reusability and viability with multiple applications in different segments. 

  • Technische Universität Berlin

    Technische Universität Berlin is a company in the space industry.
    The Chair of Space Technology at the TU Berlin focuses on the miniaturization of small satellite technologies, robotics and space exploration. With successful launch of 27 small satellites, TU Berlin ranks as one of the world's leading universities in area. Three satellites are scheduled for launch in 2023.

  • TEIDESAT

    TEIDESAT is an initiative that was born in La Laguna University, Canary islands, Spain. The main objective of the project is to demonstrate the capability to establish optical communication through LED technology between a CubeSat on Low Earth Orbit and the observatories of the Canary Islands.

  • Thermocoax SAS

    Thermocoax SAS, a world leading company for mineral insulated cable technology, manages customer's projects with catalyst bed heaters for hydrazine or green propellant thrusters, magnetic bobbins for electric engines, heating devices up to 100V, heating plates for vacuum chambers, thermocouples up to 2,000°C, down to 0.2mm.

  • Treams GmbH

    Treams GmbH is a developer and manufacturer of vacuum systems with a high level of automation, intuitiveness and integrability. It produces vacuum ovens, thermal vacuum chambers, RGA tools and systems for cleanliness measurement. It also supports customers in all questions regarding parts cleanliness by, for example, performing process chain analysis.

  • TWI Ltd

    TWI Ltd is one of the world's foremost independent RTO. It has been supporting space exploration for decades through the delivery of advanced technologies and the provision of technical advice and consultancy. It has developed precision welding and coating techniques and inspection technologies that meet the extreme demands of the sector.

  • WARR eV, TU München

    WARR eV, TU München(Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Raketentechnik und Raumfahrt -- Scientific Workgroup for Rocketry and Spaceflight) is the largest student working group at TUM and deals with various projects around the topic of space. For 60 years now, it has offered students the opportunity to apply and expand their knowledge.

  • Yamaguchi Aerospace Cluster

    Yamaguchi Aerospace Cluster is a network of manufacturing companies contributing to the aerospace industry through high-quality manufacturing standards. It has companies specializing in machining, sheet metal and 3D printing. Participating companies: Hibiki Seiki Co Ltd, AXS Co Ltd, Shinwa Seikou Inc, Kuroiso Works Co, Fuji Koatsu Flexible Hose Co Ltd.

  • Zarm

    Zarm is a company in the space industry.
    Based in the north of Germany, Zarm Test Center conveniently combines a variety of test labs for small- and large-scale aerospace-components under one roof. With them, you can test your products in vacuum, in extreme and variable thermal environments, under vibration, as well as in hyper- and microgravity.


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