95 Scaled Composites, LLC – An aerospace and specialty composites development company. Scaled has broad experience in air vehicle design, tooling, manufacturing, specialty composite structure design, analysis, fabrication, and developmental flight tests. In 2004, Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne was the first private craft ever to leave the Earth’s atmosphere, making the company the winner of the Ansari X Prize. Founder: Burt Rutan. Location: Mojave, California. Established in 1982. Selex Galileo – Selex Galileo Inc. is part of the Finmeccanica Company. From 1 January 2016, all activities previously carried out by Alenia Aermacchi, AgustaWestland and Selex ES as well as the com- panies OTO Melara and WASS were merged into Finmeccanica. Leveraging a distinctive strength in airborne mission-critical systems for situational awareness, self-protection, and surveillance, Finmecca- nica is a global player in the high-tech sectors and a major operator worldwide in the aerospace, defense and security sectors. Headquartered in Italy. Sener SA – Sener provides aerospace engineering, infrastructure, and transport, power and process and marine engineering internationally. Founded in Spain. Sitael S.p.A. – Sitael is the largest, privately-owned space company in Italy. It offers turnkey solutions to customers that facilitate access to space services and applications through its Smart Microsatellite Solutions. Sitael is a holding of Angelo Investments. Sierra Nevada Corp Space Systems – Products range from spacecraft actuators that power the Mars rovers, to hybrid rocket technologies that powered the first commercial astronaut to space, to micro-sat- ellites controlled by the Internet, to Dream Chaser®, a winged and piloted orbital commercial spacecraft. Acquired by SpaceDev in 2008. President & CFO: Eren Ozmen. Location: Sparks, Nevada. Space Information Labs – Develops, designs, and integrates technological solutions for global space- based range, operationally responsive space, autonomous flight, and navigation systems. Currently working with DARPA to develop a rapid, inexpensive launch capability for placing small satellites in orbit. Location: Santa Maria, California. Spaceflight – A private aerospace company specializing in the launch of secondary payloads ranging from 1 kg up to 300 kg micro-satellites from a variety of space launch vehicles such as Antares, Dnepr, Soyuz, and Falcon 9 as well as from the ISS. The Spaceship Company – An aerospace joint venture between Virgin Galactic and Scaled Compos- ites. TSC plans to build the world’s first fleet of commercial sub-orbital spaceships and carrier aircraft. Current vehicles include White Knight Two and Space Ship Two. Location: Mojave Air and Space Port, Mojave, California. Founded in 2008. SpaceX – Has developed two launch vehicles, established an impressive launch manifest, and been awarded COTS funding by NASA to demonstrate delivery and return of cargo to the International Space Station. By their own account, SpaceX is on a sound financial footing as they move towards vol- ume commercial launches. Founder: Elon Musk (co-founder, PayPal). Established in 2002. Spire Global – is an American private company specializing in data gathered from a network of small satellites. It has successfully deployed twelve Earth observation CubeSats into Low Earth orbit. The company signed a contract to provide NOAA with weather data. The company has offices in San Fran- cisco, Glasgow, Singapore, and Boulder. Telespazio SpA – A joint venture between Finmeccanica (67%) and Thales (33%). Headquartered in Rome, Italy, Telespazio relies on an international network of space centers and teleports and oper- ates worldwide through many subsidiaries and joint ventures. Its activities range from the design and development of space systems to the management of launch services and in-orbit satellite control from earth observation services, integrated communications, satellite navigation, and localization to scientific programs. Telespazio now covers the whole space market value chain through its four business units: Satellite Systems & Applications, Satellite Operations, Geoinformation, and Networks & Connectivity.