The National Space Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, also known as KazCosmos, or KazKosmos, is Kazakhstan's national space agency, and was officially established on March 27, 2007.

KazSat 1: The previous year, on June 18, 2006, the communications satellite KazSat 1 was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, marking the beginning of Kazakhstan's independent space program. In 2008 communications with the satellite ended, and it was declared lost.

KazSat 2: The next planned satellite, KazSat 2, has experienced a series of delays, but was launched on July 16th 2011 on board a Proton rocket. KazSat 2 was built by Krunichev and Thales Alenia Space Italy.

KazSat 3: KazCosmos signed also the contract with ISS-Reshetnev and Thales Alenia Space Italy on June 21st 2011 for the third telecommunications satellite, named KazSat 3.

Zero2Infinity SL, headquarted in Barcelona Spain, is a company designing a new concept of space tourism based on a ballon, called Bloon.

The Surrey Space Centre (SSC) is a research centre for Space Engineering. Our strategy is to underpin the technical development of the space industry through its advanced research programmes.

The SCC is specialised for small, low cost space missions, generating leading research and bringing innovation to our spin-out company SSTL and pushing the boundaries of low cost small satellite applications to develop next generation low cost small satellite technologies.

Surrey's pioneering small satellite activities started in 1979 as an academic activity at the University, leading to the formation of a successful spin-out company Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL). Astrium acquired SSTL in 2009 and established a long-term strategic collaboration with the University to further advance the University's cutting edge space research capacity.

We provide well focused space engineering undergraduate, postgraduate and industrial short courses, training the next generation space scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders.

The SCC academic research laboratories cover advanced multidisciplinary small satellite and space system engineering techniques for Earth orbit and interplanetary space; innovative communications, remote sensing, robotics and space science payloads for small satellites; and enabling technologies for low cost space exploitation and planetary exploration.

Teledyne Technologies Inc is an industrial conglomerate primarily based in the USA but with global operations. It was founded in 1960, as Teledyne Inc.

Teledyne Technologies currently operates with four major segments: Digital Imaging, Instrumentation, Engineered Systems, and Aerospace and Defense Electronics.

The 'Engineered Systems' segment provides systems engineering and integration, advanced technology application, software development, and manufacturing solutions to space, military, environmental, energy, chemical, biological and nuclear systems, and missile defense requirements. It also designs and manufactures hydrogen gas generators, thermoelectric and fuel-based power sources, and small turbine engines.

The 'Aerospace and Defense Electronics' segment provides complex electronic components and subsystems for communication products, including defense electronics, data acquisition and communications equipment for air transport and business aircraft, and components and subsystems for wireless and satellite communications, as well as general aviation batteries.

Wyle is a private company providing specialized engineering, scientific and technical services to the American Department of Defense, NASA, and a variety of commercial customers primarily in the aerospace industry.

The company is specialized in high tech services for Aerospace, Life Sciences and Information Systems. It offers services in the areas of test and evaluation; systems engineering and information technology; life cycle and acquisition program management; life sciences research; space medical operations and engineering; and qualification testing for systems and components.

The European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS), established in 1993, is an organization which works to improve standardization within the European space sector.

The ECSS frequently publishes standards, to which contractors working for ESA must adhere to.

ECLIPSE (ECSS Compliant Toolset for Information and Projects Support of Enterprises in Space) is a suite of software applications, intended for use by aerospace project and mission teams in managing their  IT projects activities.

ECLIPSE objective is to provide a straightforward path to compliance with ECSS standards.

Features:

• ECLIPSE supports the following activities:
• Document Management
• Configuration Management
• Action Management
• Risk Management
• Non-Conformance Management
• Quality Assurance
• Product Assurance
• Project Management
• Knowledge Management
• Technology Management

Euclid is an ESA mission selected for launch in 2019 in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. The main goal of Euclid is to understand the origin of the accelerating expansion of the Universe. To achieve this, it is proposed to build a satellite equipped with a 1.2 m telescope and three imaging and spectroscopic instruments working in the visible and near-infrared wavelength domains.

The primary goall is to understand the nature of dark energy and dark matter by accurate measurement of the accelerated expansion of the Universe through different independent methods.

The Euclid Consortium (EC) is a European organisation which brings together all laboratories contributing to the Euclid mission, beside ESA. The EC is composed of the teams that imagined, designed and proposed the Euclid mission submitted to the ESA Cosmic Vision program selection.

The main objective is to probe the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter.

Euclid is an ESA medium class mission selected for launch in 2019 in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme (ESA PR selection ). The main goal of Euclid is to understand the origin of the accelerating expansion of the Universe. To achieve this, it is proposed to build a satellite equipped with a 1.2 m telescope and three imaging and spectroscopic instruments working in the visible and near-infrared wavelength domains. These instruments will explore the expansion history of the Universe and the evolution of cosmic structures with look back time by measuring shapes and red­shifts of galaxies as well as the distribution of clusters of galaxies as function of redshift over a very large fraction of the sky. The satellite will be launched by a Soyuz ST-2.1B rocket and transferred to the L2 Lagrange point for a 6 years mission (see the ESA Euclid mission summary ).

Euclid will address key fun­da­mental cosmological questions:

• Is dark energy merely a cosmological constant, as first discussed by Einstein, or is it a new kind of field that evolves dynamically with the expansion of the universe?
• Alternatively, is dark energy instead a manifestation of a break-down of General Relativity and deviations from the law of gravity?
• What are the nature and properties of dark matter?
• What are the initial conditions which seed the formation of cosmic structure?
• etc.

see as well: ESA Euclid homepage

DigitalGlobe of Longmont, Colorado, USA, is a commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content. It is an operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange on 14 May 2009.

Satellites:

• WorldView family of satellites.
• QuickBird
• EarlyBird

Origin:

in 1992, the company Worldview Imaging Corporation was founded.

In 1995, Worldview became EarthWatch Incorporated, after merging with a division of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

In 2001, EarthWatch became DigitalGlobe.