Aerospace companies

ACA Industries was a US aerospace research company founded in Torrance, California by Dr Julian Wolkovich to work on joined wing designs. ...more on Wikipedia about "ACA Industries"

Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (漢翔航空工業股份有限公司) is an aerospace company based in Taichung which developed the AIDC Ching-kuo aircraft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation"

Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) is an aerospace engineering company in the United States of America. It is the prime contractor of the US Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), in Tullahoma, Tennessee. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aerospace Testing Alliance"

Founded in 1980, Arianespace SA undertakes the production, operation and marketing of the Ariane 4 and Ariane 5 rocket launchers as part of the Ariane programme. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arianespace"

Armadillo Aerospace is an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas. Its initial goal is to build a manned suborbital Ansari X-Prize-class spacecraft, but it has stated long-term ambitions of orbital spaceflight. The company was founded in the year 2000, but was incorporated on January 1, 2001. ...more on Wikipedia about "Armadillo Aerospace"

Avio S.p.A. is an Italian aerospace engine manufacturer. Formerly owned by FIAT S.p.A. and named FiatAvio, it is now owned by The Carlyle Group. Avio chiefly serves as a subcontractor to first-tier jet engine manufacturers, or in a partnership role in consortiums. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avio S.p.A."

Bigelow Aerospace is a Las Vegas, Nevada space technology start-up company that is pioneering work on expandable space station modules. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bigelow Aerospace"

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Blue Origin is a privately-funded aerospace company initially focused on sub-orbital spaceflight founded in 2000. The company is owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and headquartered in a warehouse situated on 25 acres of industrial land in the Seattle, Washington suburb of Kent, Washington, where its research and development is located. It has its testing and operations center in Culberson County, Texas, on a portion of the Corn Ranch, a 165,000 acre (668 km²) spread north of Van Horn and 15 miles south of the Guadalupe Mountains. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blue Origin"

BTR Aerospace Group was renamed from BTR Industries after acquisition of Dunlop Aviation Division in 1985. ...more on Wikipedia about "BTR Aerospace Group"

British Tyre and Rubber (BTR) Industries acquired or merged with Dunlop Aviation Division in 1985 to form BTR Aerospace Group. ...more on Wikipedia about "BTR Industries"

Denel Aerospace Systems is a division of Denel, the South African armaments production company. Formerly known as Kentron, it underwent the name change during the early part of 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Denel Aerospace Systems"

The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V. (EADS) ( , ) is a large European aerospace corporation, formed by the merger on July 10, 2000 of Aérospatiale-Matra of France, Dornier GmbH and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) of Germany, and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) of Spain. ...more on Wikipedia about "EADS"

EADS Astrium, a subsidiary of EADS, is a European space manufacturer involved in the manufacture of spacecraft used for science, Earth observation and telecommunication, as well as the equipment and subsystems used therein and related ground systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "EADS Astrium"

The Goodrich Corporation (formerly the B.F. Goodrich Company) , based in Charlotte is an American aerospace manufacturing company. Founded in Akron, Ohio in 1870 as Goodrich, Tew & Co. by Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich. The company name was changed to the "B.F. Goodrich Company" in 1880, to BFGoodrich in the 1980's, and to the "Goodrich Corporation" in 2001. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goodrich Corporation"

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Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC) is a Chinese company located in the Heilongjiang province that makes aircraft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation"

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA), one of two operating companies of Kongsberg Gruppen (KOG) of Norway, is a supplier of defence and space related systems and products, mainly anti-ship missiles, military communications, and command and weapons control systems for naval vessels and air-defence applications. Today, the company is probably best known abroad for its development/industrialisation and production of the first passive IR homing anti-ship missile of the western world, the Penguin, starting delivery in the early 1970s (when KDA was part of KOG's predecessor Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk). As of 2004, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace had 1,533 employees. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace"

Loral Space & Communications Ltd. is a satellite communications company headed by Bernard L. Schwartz and incorporated in Bermuda. The company was formed in 1996 from the remnants of Loral Corp. when Loral divested its defense electronics and system integration businesses to Lockheed Martin for $9.1 billion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Loral Space & Communications"

Mécanique Avion TRAction or Matra was a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to aeronautics and weaponry which from 1994 was a subsidiary of Lagardère Group and which now operates under that name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Matra"

MBDA is a European arms company which manufactures missiles and is the result of the 2002 merger of Aérospatiale-Matra Missiles (of EADS), Alenia Marconi Systems' missile divisions and Matra BAe Dynamics. As of 2003 the company had 10,000 employees and in 2005 an annual turnover of €3 bn. ...more on Wikipedia about "MBDA"

NHIndustries is a helicopter manufacturing company established in 1992 by Eurocopter of France and Germany , Agusta of Italy as well as Stork Fokker Aerospace of the Netherlands. ...more on Wikipedia about "NHIndustries"

The Northrop Grumman Corporation ( ) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of a 1994 merger between Northrop and Grumman. Major components added later with the acquisition of Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, Logicon, Teledyne Ryan, Litton ( Ingalls, Avondale), Newport News, and TRW (sans LucasVarity.) Ronald Sugar is the CEO. ...more on Wikipedia about "Northrop Grumman"

S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (also known as RKK Energiya) is a Russian manufacturer of spacecraft and space station components. It is named after Sergei Korolev and has been known successively as: Special Design Bureau number 1 (ОКБ-1 or OKB-1), TsKBEM, NPO Energia and S.P. Korolev RSC Energia. ...more on Wikipedia about "S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia"

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), of Palo Alto, California, is the wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications. It was acquired in 1990 for $715 million by Loral Corp. from Ford Motor Company as the Space Systems Division of Ford Aerospace. The company was founded as the Western Development Laboratories (WDL) of Philco (Philco-Ford since 1966). ...more on Wikipedia about "Space Systems/Loral"

The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) is an El Segundo, California space transportation startup company whose stated goal is to improve the cost and reliability of access to space "ultimately by a factor of ten". ...more on Wikipedia about "SpaceX"

t/Space (or Transformational Space Corporation) is an American aerospace company which tried to compete for NASA's Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) contract. The company's CEO is David Gump of LunaCorp. Some notable members of the company include Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites, Gary Hudson of AirLaunch LLC ** , Elon Musk of SpaceX, and Red Whittaker of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. The company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. ...more on Wikipedia about "T/Space"

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