APPENDIX B:
COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED WITH SPACE
In this appendix
Some of the 2,000 organizations in the space industry are listed.
Advantech Wireless
| Main: | http://www.advantechwireless.com |
| HQ: | 657 Orly Ave, Montreal QC H9P 1G1 Canada Tel: +1 (514) 420-0045 |
Manufactures electronics for broadband connectivity, broadcast solutions, and backhaul using satellite (HPAs, SSPA, BUCs, DVB-RCS VSAT hubs and terminals, antennas, converters, and satellite modems.
Aerojet Rocketdyne
| Main: | http://www.rocket.com |
| Career: | http://www.rocket.com/careers |
| HQ: | 2001 Aerojet Road Rancho, Cordova, CA 95742-6418 Tel: +1 (703) 650-0270 |
Provides propulsion and energetics to the space, missile defense, strategic, tactical missile and armaments, including the engines that were used on Apollo and the Space Shuttle as well as for future space efforts.
Locations: Sacramento, CA; Carlstadt, NJ; Camden, AR; Canoga Park, CA; Gainesville, VA; Hill AFB, UT; Washington, DC; West Palm Beach, FL; Stennis Space Center, MS; Socorro, NM; Redmond, WA; Culpepper, VA; Jonesborough, TN; Huntsville AL.
Aerospace Corporation
| Main: | http://www.aerospace.org |
| Career: | http://www.aerospace.org/careers/ |
| HQ: | 2310 E. El Segundo Blvd., El Segundo, CA 90245-4691 Tel: +1 (310) 336-5000 |
Operates a federally funded research-and-development center for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office and supports all national security space programs. Also performs projects for civil agencies, such as NASA and NOAA, commercial companies, universities, and international organizations in the national interest.
Locations: Albuquerque, NM; Aurora, CO; Cape Canaveral, FL; Chantilly, VA; Colorado Springs, CO; Houston, TX, Huntsville, AL; Pasadena, CA; Peterson AFB, CO; Vandenberg AFB, CA; Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
Ai Solutions
| Main: | http://www.ai-solutions.com |
| Career: | http://www.ai-solutions.com/Careers/ |
| HQ: | 10001 Derekwood Ln., Suite 215, Lanham, MD 20706 Tel: +1 (301) 306-1756 |
Engineering, science and IT professionals nationwide serving civilian, defense, and commercial customers in the areas of flight dynamics, space operations, ground system software, information technology, and systems engineering for launch vehicles, missiles and satellites.
Regional offices: Cape Canaveral, FL; Huntsville, AL, and Colorado Springs, CO.
Analytical Graphics
| Main: | http://www.agi.com |
| Career: | http://www.agi.com/careers/ |
| HQ: | 220 Valley Creek Blvd., Exton, PA 19341 Tel: +1 (610) 981-8000 |
Major locations: Washington, DC-area; Colorado Springs, CO; southern California.
Software to model, analyze, and visualize space, defense, and intelligence systems.
Andrews Space
| Main: | http://andrews-space.com/ |
| Career: | http://andrews-space.com/careers |
| HQ: | 3415 S. 116th St., Suite 123, Tukwila, WA 98168 Tel: +1 (206) 342-9934 |
Andrews’ technical competencies include product/system development, space system design, rapid prototyping, propulsion system design, systems engineering, and business analysis.
Apollo Microwaves Ltd
| Main: | http://www.apollomw.com |
| HQ: | 1650 Trans-Canada Hwy, Dorval, QC H9P 1H7 Canada Tel: +1 (514) 421-2211 |
Passive microwave components and subsystems from 900 MHz to 60GHz.
Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University
| Main: | http://www.jhuapl.edu/ |
| Career: | http://www.jhuapl.edu/employment/default.asp |
| HQ: | 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723 Tel: +1 (240) 228-5000 |
APL focuses primarily on space physics and planetary sciences and its 5,000+ scientists and engineers and analysts have, for more than 70 years, served as trusted advisors and technical experts to government, ensuring the reliability of complex technologies that safeguard the nation’s security and advance the frontiers of space. APL conducts research and space exploration and develops and applies space science, engineering, and technology, including the production of one-of-a-kind spacecraft, instruments, and subsystems. APL has designed, developed, and launched 64 spacecraft and more than 150 space instruments.
Artel LLC
| Main: | http://www.artelllc.com |
| HQ: | 13665 Dulles Technology Dr, Herndon, VA 20171 Tel: +1 (703) 620-1700 |
Provides a full portfolio of satellite and terrestrial network communications and infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk management and IT solutions.
ASC Signal Corporation
| Main: | http://www.ascsignal.com |
| HQ: | 1120 Jupiter Rd, Suite 102, Plano TX 75074 Tel: +1 (214) 291-7654 |
Supplier of satellite earth station equipment from 3.5 meters to 9.4 meters and operating in the C-, K-, Ka-, Ku-, and X-bands.
Astrotech Corporation
| Main: | http://astrotechcorp.com/ |
| HQ: | 401 Congress Ave, Suite 1650, Austin, Texas 78701 |
| Tel: | +1 (512) 485-9530 |
Astrotech, formerly SPACEHAB, Inc., has for more than 25 years prepared and sent satellites, cargo, and science into space.
AvL Technologies
| Main: | http://www.avltech.com |
| HQ: | 15 North Merrimon Ave, Asheville, NC 28804 Tel: +1 (828) 250-9950 |
Mobile satellite antennas and positioners for communications products.
AVCOM of Virginia, Inc
| Main: | http://www.avcomofva.com |
| HQ: | 7729 Pocoshock Way, Richmond VA 23235 Tel: +1 (804) 794-2500 |
Test equipment for the satellite communications industry
Ball Aerospace
| Main: | http://www.ballaerospace.com/ |
| Career: | http://www.ballaerospace.com/page.jsp?page=7 |
| HQ: | 10 Longs Peak Drive, Broomfield, CO 80021 Tel: +1 (303) 939-6100 |
Ball Aerospace designs, develops, and manufactures spacecraft, instruments and sensors, RF and microwave technologies, data exploitation solutions and a variety of advanced aerospace technologies and products.
Major locations: Boulder, CO; Washington, DC; Chantilly, VA; Albuquerque, NM.
Barrios Technology
| Main: | http://www.barrios.com/pages/home.asp |
| Career: | http://www.barrios.com/careers.asp |
| HQ: | 16441 Space Center Blvd., Suite B-100, Houston, TX 77058 Tel: +1 (281) 280-1900 |
Barrios provides a full spectrum of engineering, operations and related technology services in support of the aerospace community with strengths in engineering, program planning and control, and software engineering.
Bigelow Aerospace
| Main: | http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/ |
| Career: | http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/careers |
| HQ: | 1899 W. Brooks Ave, North Las Vegas, NV 89032 Tel: +1 (702) 639-4440 |
The firm is developing patented expandable habitats. The Bigelow Aerospace Mission Control Center monitors and operates the company’s spacecraft currently in orbit and will control Bigelow Aerospace’s future space facilities. Data and imagery are transmitted into Mission Control from the two Bigelow Aerospace spacecraft currently orbiting the Earth—Genesis I and Genesis II.
Blue Origin LLC
| Main: | http://www.blueorigin.com |
| Career: | http://www.blueorigin.com/careers/ |
| HQ: | 21218 76th Ave S, Kent, WA 98032 Tel: +1 (253) 437-9300 |
Blue Origin, LLC, founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is developing technologies to enable human access to space at dramatically lower cost and increased reliability. This is a long-term effort, and the company is pursuing it incrementally, step by step; currently focused on developing reusable launch vehicles utilizing rocket-powered Vertical Take-off and Vertical Landing (VTVL) technology.
Boeing
| Main: | http://www.boeing.com |
| Space Group: | http://www.boeing.com/boeing/space |
| Careers: | http://www.boeing.com/boeing/careers/index.page? http://jobs-boeing.com/ |
| Corporate: | 100 North Riverside, Chicago, IL 60606 Tel: +1 (312) 544-2000 |
Boeing employs more than 50,000 people worldwide in the areas of human spaceflight, space transportation, military space and security, satellite systems and services, and heavy lift launch vehicles. The Space & Intelligence Systems Group is involved with commercial satellites, commercial satellite services; GPS satellites, Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, Wideband Global Satcom satellites, and the X-37B Orbital Test vehicle. The Space Exploration Group is involved with space launch services, launch products and services, the Boeing Space Crew Transportation system; and the International Space Station.
Major locations: Huntsville, AL; Seal Beach, CA; Huntington Beach, CA; El Segundo, CA: Long Beach, CA; Kennedy Space Center, FL; Houston, TX; Washington, DC; Annapolis Junction, MD.
Booz Allen & Hamilton
| Main: | http://www.boozallen.com |
| Careers: | http://www.boozallen.com/careers |
| HQ: | 8283 Greensboro Drive, McLean, VA 22102 Tel: +1 (703) 902-5000 |
Strategy and technology consulting to help defense, civil, and intelligence agencies address the technical, cost, schedule, and risk aspects of space systems development.
Braxton Technologies
| Main: | http://www.braxtontech.com |
| HQ: | 6 North Tejon Street, Suite 220, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Tel: +1 (719) 380-8488 |
Hardware and software components necessary for complete ground system implementation, from front-end communications processors and crypto controllers to user workstations for satellite ground systems, space, atmospheric, and ground C2 missions. .
C-Com Satellite Systems
| Main: | http://www.c-comsat.com |
| HQ: | 2574 Sheffield Rd, Ottawa ON K1B 3V7, Canada Tel: +1 (613) 745-4110 |
With over 6000 systems deployed worldwide, the firm develops and deploys mobile satellite-based technology for the delivery of two-way high-speed Internet, VoIP and video services into vehicles.
ComDev
| Main: | http://www.comdev.ca or www.comdevinternational.com |
| Careers: | http://www.comdev.ca/careers |
| Canada HQ: | 155 Sheldon Drive Cambridge, ON N1R 7H6, CANADA Tel: +1 (519) 622-2300 |
| US HQ: | 2333 Utah Ave., El Segundo, CA 90245 Tel: +1 (424) 456-8000 |
A global designer and manufacturer of space hardware including scientific instrumentation and payloads, optical surveillance payloads, spacecraft bus for microsatellite solutions as well as being world leaders in the production of space-qualified passive microwave equipment, specialized electronics and optical subsystems. More than 1,200 employees at facilities in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Communications and Power Industries (CPI)
| Main: | http://www.cpii.com |
| HQ: | 811 Hansen Way, Palo Alto CA 94304 Tel: +1 (650) 846-2900 |
CPI manufactures TWTAs, KPAs, SSPAs, high power BUCs, and LNAs for various satellite applications.
Comtech EF Data
| Main: | http://www.comtechefdata.com |
| HQ: | 2114 W 7th St, Tempe AZ 85281 Tel: +1 (480) 333-2200 |
Products for satellite bandwidth efficiency and link optimization.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp
| Main: | http://www.comtechtel.com |
| HQ: | 68 South Service Rd, Suite 230, Melville NY 11747 |
Manufactures satellite electronics including modems, solid sate amplifiers, traveling wave tube amplifiers, and over-the-horizon microwave systems.
Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc.
| Main: | http://www.xicomtech.com |
| HQ: | 3550 Bassett St, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Tel: +1 (408) 213-3000 |
Product line of KPAs, TWTAs, SSPAs, and BUCs for satellite uplink.
CSC North American Public Sector
| Main: | http://www.csc.com |
| Careers: | http://www.csc.com/contact_us/ds/88858-contact_information_for_careers |
| HQ: | 3170 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042 Tel: +1 (703) 876-1000 |
CSC provides information technology (IT) services and solutions with major contracts at NASA and the Air Force.
DigitalGlobe
| Main: | http://www.digitalglobe.com/ |
| Careers: | http://www.digitalglobe.com/careers |
| HQ: | 1601 Dry Creek Drive, Suite 260, Longmont, CO 80503 Tel: +1 (303) 684.4000 |
DigitalGlobe is a global provider of commercial high-resolution Earth imagery products and geospatial solution services. Sourced from its advanced satellite constellation, its imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, Internet portals and navigation technology.
DirecTV
| Main: | http://www.directv.com |
| Careers: | http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/content/careers |
| HQ: | 2230 E. Imperial Hwy, El Segundo, CA 90245 Tel: +1 (855) 802-3473 |
DIRECTV is one of the world’s leading providers of digital television entertainment services. Many of the more than 16,000 employees operate the broadcast centers on the ground, monitor satellites in space, or provide customer service.
Corporate offices in El Segundo, CA; New York City; and Denver, CO.
Broadcast centers in Castle Rock, CO; Long Beach, CA; and Marina del Rey, CA.
Customer contact and sales offices in ID, CO, WV, AL, MT, OK, GA, IL.
Draper Laboratory
| Main: | http://www.draper.com |
| Careers: | http://www.draper.com/our_culture.html |
| HQ: | 555 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139-3563 Tel: +1 (617) 258-1000 |
Draper is a not-for-profit research-and-development laboratory focused on the design, development, and deployment of advanced technological solutions for the nation’s most challenging and important problems in security, space exploration, healthcare, and energy. Expertise includes guidance, navigation, and control systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software solutions; modeling and simulation; and MEMS and multichip module technology.
Other locations: Cambridge, MA; Houston, TX; Washington, DC; Huntsville, AL.
EchoStar Corporation
| Main: | http://www.echostar.com |
| Career: | http://www.echostarcareers.com/ |
| HQ: | 100 Inverness Terrace East, Englewood, CO 80112 Tel: +1 (303) 706-4000 |
EchoStar Satellite Services provides advanced satellite communications solutions from video distribution, data communications, and backhaul services to the delivery of television channels for direct-to-homes satellite providers and broadcasters. EchoStar’s wholly owned subsidiary, Hughes, is the world’s leading provider of satellite broadband services, delivering network technologies and managed services in more than 100 countries.
Echostar Satellite Services
| Main: | http://www.echostarsatelliteservices.com |
| HQ: | 100 Inverness Terrace East, Englewood, CO 80112 Tel: +1 (866) 359-8804 |
Provides communications solutions including video distribution, data communications, and backhaul services.
Emerging Markets Communications
| Main: | http://www.emc-corp.net |
| HQ: | 777 Briskell Ave, Suite 1150, Miami, FL 33130 Tel: +1 (305) 539-1358 |
EMC operates in 140 countries with 300+ employees that deliver satellite and terrestrial networks and services to telecom carriers, banks, energy, government, NGOs, and enterprises.
Eutelsat
| Main: | http://www.eutelsatamerica.com |
| US HQ: | 1776 I Street, NW; Suite 810, Washington DC 20006 Tel: +1 (202) 559-4330 |
With a fleet of 34 satellites, Eutelsat is Europe’s leading satellite operator and the third largest globally.
Exelis (Acquisition by Harris Proposed in February 2015)
| Main: | http://www.exelisinc.com/ |
| Career: | http://www.exelisinc.com/careers/ |
| HQ: | 1650 Tysons Blvd. Suite 1700, McLean, VA 22102 Tel +1 (703) 790-6300 |
Geospatial: 400 Initiative Drive, P.O. Box 60488, Rochester, NY 14606
Tel: +1 (585) 269-5600
Weather and Space Sciences: 1919 W. Cook Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46801
Tel: +1 (260) 451-6000
GPS Navigation: 77 River Road, Clifton, NJ 07014
Tel: +1 (973) 284-3000
Visual Information Solutions: 4990 Pearl East Circle, Boulder, CO 80301
Tel: +1 (303) 786-9900
Geospatial Information Solutions-Enterprise Products:
7007 Harbour View Blvd., Suite 101, Suffolk, VA 23435
Tel: +1 (757) 483-0226
Exelis employees nearly 10,000 people and is a diversified, top-tier global aerospace, defense and information solutions company leader in positioning and navigation, sensors, air traffic management solutions, image processing and distribution, communications and information systems; and focused on strategic growth in the areas of critical networks, ISR and analytics, electronic warfare and composite aerostructures.
Exelis Geospatial Systems provides intelligence, Earth and space science, and commercial aerospace arenas with a wide ranges of capabilities in the image capture, remote sensing and navigation industry.
GPS Payload, Receiver and Control Systems: Our Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) business is a total GPS navigation systems supplier providing GPS payload, receiver and control solutions. We have developed more than 50 GPS satellite payloads that have been on every GPS satellite ever accumulated nearly 700 years of on-orbit life without a single mission-related failure due to our equipment.
Space-based Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance: Precision optics and structures with specialized capabilities including high reliability remote sensing payloads for ground, air and space, offering active and motion imaging, anti-jam signal generation data encryption, information processing and system performance modeling and simulation. We also provide solutions that map and monitor the earth for a variety of commercial and governmental users.
Garmin International
| Main: | http://www.garmin.com |
| Career: | http://www.garmin.com/en-US/company/careers/ |
| HQ: | 1200 E. 151st St. Olathe, KS 66062-3426 Tel: +1 (913) 397-8200 |
With more than 9200 employees in 32 countries, Garmin has pioneered new GPS navigation and wireless devices and applications that are designed for people who live an active lifestyle. Garmin serves five primary business units, including automotive, aviation, fitness, marine, and outdoor recreation.
General Dynamics AIS
| Main: | http://www.gd-ais.com http://www.gd-ais.com/Products/Space-Electronics |
| Careers: | http://www.gd-ais.com/Careers |
| AIS HQ: | 12450 Fair Lakes Circle, Fairfax, VA Tel: +1 (703) 263-2800 8201 East McDowell Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85257 1450 Academy Park Loop, Colorado Springs, CO 80910 Tel: +1 (719) 313-5900 2721 Technology Dr, Ste 400, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 Tel: +1 (240) 456-5500 911 Elkridge Landing Road, Linthicum, MD 21090 14700 Lee Road Chantilly, VA 20151 |
General Dynamics has more than 50 years of experience designing and manufacturing high reliability space electronics for NASA and the Department of Defense; manufactures flight-proven subsystem and components including space communications and data handling electronics, miniaturized power components and on-board software development. It supplies the tracking, telemetry and control (TT&C), precision navigation and timing, and crosslink equipment for missions of human spaceflight, near-Earth observation, lunar and deep space exploration.
General Dynamics C4 Systems
| Main: | http://www.gdc4s.com http://www.gdc4s.com/services/satellite-communication-services.html |
| Careers: | http://www.gdc4s.com/careers.html |
| HQ: | 8201 E. McDowell Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85257 Tel: +1 (877) 449-0600 |
| SpacePlex | 4600 Research Park Circle, Las Cruces, NM 88001 Tel: +1 (575) 541-7700 430 National Business Pkwy, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 Tel: +1 (443) 755-8000 6000 Technology Drive, Bldg. 6, Huntsville, AL 35805 Tel: +1 (256) 890-2147 2900 Crystal Drive, Suite 510, Arlington, VA 22202 Tel: +1 (703) 769-1500 |
Complex command, control, computing and communications challenges for U. S. government customers General Dynamics Satellite Communication Services provides access to the world via mobile and fixed commercial communications products and services.
Gigasat
| Main: | http://www.ultra-gigasat.com/ |
| HQ: | 2 Beach Rd, Annapolis MD 21405 Tel: +1 (443) 994-2100 |
Manufactures fixed, mobile, and flyaway satellite earth station antennas from 0.5m to 4.5m.
Globalstar
| Main: | http://www.globalstar.com/en/ |
| Careers: | http://www.globalstar.com/en/index.php?cid=8700 |
| HQ: | 300 Holiday Square Blvd., Covington, Louisiana 70433 Tel: +1 (985) 335-1538 |
Globalstar operates a network of satellites to provide mobile satellite voice and data services to government, commercial and recreational users in more than 120 countries around the world.
Globecomm Systems
| Main: | http://www.globecommsystems.com/ |
| Career: | http://www.globecommsystems.com/about/career.shtml |
| HQ: | 45 Oser Avenue, Hauppauge, NY 11788-3816 Tel: +1 (866) 499-0223 |
Globecomm designs, integrates, and offers end-to-end communications solutions using fixed and portable Earth stations as well as providing teleport and network services.
| Globecomm Maritime | 210 Malapardis Rd, Suite 202, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927 Tel: +1 (973) 889-8990 |
| Globecomm Government | 9115 Whiskey Bottom Rd, Suite H, Laurel, MD 20723 Tel: +1 (866) 498-5650 |
| Comsource | 8430 Gas House Pike, Frederick, MD 21701 Tel: +1 (240) 379-1700 |
GMV
| Main: | http://www.gmv.com |
| US HQ: | 2400 Research Blvd, Ste 390, Rockville, MD, 20850 Tel. +1 (240) 252-2320 |
Provides engineering, software development, and systems integration in the areas of satellite control, flight dynamics, mission data processing, mission analysis, mission planning, and navigation systems and applications
Harris Corporation
| Main: | http://www.harris.com |
| Career: | http://www.harris.com/careers/ |
| HQ: | 1025 W NASA Boulevard, Melbourne, FL 32919 Tel: +1 (321) 727-9100 |
Government Communications Systems
| 2400 Palm Bay Road, NE Palm Bay, FL 32905 Tel: +1 (321) 727-9100 |
Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets with $5 billion in annual revenue and about 14,000 employees—including 6,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is involved with the architecture, design and development of highly specialized satellite antennas, structures, phased arrays, and onboard processors that enable next-generation satellite systems for military, intelligence, government, and commercial customers.
Harris CapRock Communications
| Main: | http://www.harriscaprock.com |
| Careers | http://www.harriscaprock.com/careers.php |
| HQ: | 4400 S. Sam Houston Pkwy East, Houston, TX 77048 Tel: +1 (832) 668-2300 |
| Harris CapRock Govt | 2235 Monroe Street, Herndon, VA 20171 Tel: +1 (703) 673-1400 |
| Harris CapRock Maritime | 1025 West NASA Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32919 Tel: +1 (321) 674-4750 |
Harris CapRock Communications is a global provider of managed satellite and terrestrial communications solutions specifically for remote and harsh environments including the energy, government and maritime markets. The firm owns and operates a robust global infrastructure that includes teleports on six continents, five 24/7 customer support centers, local presence in 23 countries and more than 275 global field service personnel supporting customer locations across North America, Central and South America, Europe, West Africa and Asia Pacific.
Honeywell Aerospace
| Main: | http://www.Honeywell.com |
| Space: | http://aerospace.honeywell.com/markets/space |
| Careers: | http://www.careersathoneywell.com/en/aerospace |
| Aerospace HQ: | 21111 N. 19th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85072 Tel: +1 (602) 365-3099 |
Honeywell Aerospace is a $10 billion division of Honeywell that manufactures aircraft engines and avionics, as well as a producer of auxiliary power units and other aviation products.
Operations in Maryland and around the country.
Honeywell Space Engineering and Operations
HTSI, the nation’s most experienced space systems operations company has more than 50 years’ experience in the mission engineering, designing, fabricating, installing, operating, and maintaining satellite command and control systems; integration and testing of spaceflight hardware and software; antenna RF solutions, mission engineering, and satellite network operations maintenance.
Honeywell Space Navigation and Microelectronics
More than 40 years experience producing guidance, navigation and control products ranging from complex launch vehicle inertial navigation to versatile off-the-shelf inertial measurement units. Honeywell’s radiation hardened electronics products and technology provide aerospace system and electrical designers a strategically hardened family of products to increase performance. Honeywell environmental control and life support systems have logged more than 500 million aircraft flight hours since 1945 and 35,000 flight hours in space.
Hughes Network Systems, A Subsidiary of Echostar
| Main: | http://www.hughes.com/ |
| Career: | http://www.hughes.com/company/careers |
| HQ: | 11717 Exploration Lane, Germantown, MD 20876 Tel: +1 (301) 428-5500 |
Hughes provides satellite broadband for home and office. This includes the manufacture and design of satellite networking products and services including very small aperture terminals (VSAT), high-speed Internet service, and the design and development of mobile satellite systems and related terminals.
iDirect
| Main: | http://www.idirect.net |
| HQ: | 13865 Sunrise Valley Dr, Herndon VA 20171 Tel: +1 (703) 648-8000 |
IP-based satellite communications company providing technology, hardware, software, and services that enable VSAT service providers to optimize their networks.
ILC Dover
| Main: | http://www.ilcdover.com/space |
| Careers: | http://www.ilcdover.com/careers |
| HQ: | One Moonwalker Road, Frederica, DE 19946-2080 Tel: +1 (302) 335-3911 |
ILC has supplied all the space suits for NASA since project Apollo. The customized impact bags helped safely land the first rover on Mars.
InSpace 21
| Main: | http://www.inspace21.com/ |
| Career: | http://www.inspace21.com/careers.html |
| HQ: | 3170 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042 Tel: +1 (703) 876-1000 |
A CSC and Honeywell joint venture, it provides operations, engineering, sustainment and logistics solutions at ranges including Cape Canaveral, AUTEC, Wallops, Nellis, and White Sands.
Intelsat
| Main: | http://www.intelsat.com |
| Career: | http://www.intelsat.com/careers/ |
| HQ: | 7900 Tysons One Place, McLean, VA 22102-5972 Phone: +1 (703) 559-6800 |
Intelsat is the largest provider of satellite services worldwide and for 50 years it has delivered information and entertainment for many of the world’s leading media and network companies, multinational corporations, Internet service providers and governmental agencies. Opportunities exist in aerospace, engineering, sales, finance, information technology and several other disciplines.
Locations: The firm has sales offices around the world.
Intelsat General
| Main: | http://www.intelsatgeneral.com |
| HQ: | 7900 Tysons One Place, Suite 12, McLean, VA 22102 |
| Tel: | +1 (703) 270-4200 |
A wholly owned subsidy of Intelsat, the firm provides satellite communications solutions to military and government customers over Intelsat’s fleet of satellites.
ILS (International Launch Services)
| Main: | http://www.ilslaunch.com/ |
| Careers: | http://www.ilslaunch.com/careers |
| HQ: | 1875 Explorer Street, Suite 700, Reston, VA 20190 Tel: +1 (571) 633-7400 |
International Launch Services provides mission management and launch services for the global commercial satellite industry using the premier heavy lift vehicle, the Proton, and other vehicles
Inmarsat
| Main: | http://www.inmarsat.com |
| Careers: | http://www.inmarsat.com/about-us/careers/our-offices/ |
| US Addresses | 58 Inverness Drive East, Suite 100, Englewood, CO 80112 Tel: +1 (303) 397-7500 1101 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006 Tel: +1 (202) 248-5150 |
Headquartered in London UK, Inmarsat is a global satellite operator with offices and operational centers in more than 40 countries employing more than 1500 people. The firm offers a portfolio of global satcom solutions and value-added services to keep people connected on land, sea or in the air.
US offices in Washington, DC; Stafford TX, Seattle WA, Scott LA, Plantation FL, New Orleans LA, Miami FL, Houston TX, Herdon VA, Englewood CO,
Iridium Communications Inc.
| Main: | http://www.iridium.com |
| HQ: | 1750 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 1400, McLean, VA 22102 Tel: +1 (703) 287-7400 |
| Business Operations: | 8440 South River Parkway, Tempe, AZ 85284 Tel: +1 (480) 752-1000 |
Iridium’s low-Earth orbiting cross-linked satellites—the world’s largest commercial constellation—operate as a fully meshed network that reaches over oceans, through airways and across the polar regions. Iridium solutions are suited for industries such as maritime, aviation, government/military, emergency/humanitarian services, mining, forestry, oil and gas, heavy equipment, transportation and utilities.
Kratos Defense & Security Services
| Main: | http://www.kratosdefense.com |
| Corporate: | 5971 Kingstowne Village Pkwy, Ste 200, Alexandria VA 22315 Tel: +1 (858) 812-7300 |
Provides earth station solutions for national security platforms and programs.
Kratos ISI
| Main: | http://www.kratosTTS.com/KISI |
| HQ: | 5200 Philadelphia Way, Lanham MD 20706 Tel: +1 (443) 539-5008 |
Provides turnkey earth stations, and products, systems, and services for satellite command and control, telemetry and digital signal processing, data communications, enterprise network management, and communications assurance.
Kratos Networks
| Main: | http://wwww.kratosnetworks.com |
| Corporate: | 5971 Kingstowne Village Pkwy, Ste 200, Alexandria VA 22315 Tel: +1 (858) 812-7300 |
Products organize and manage communications performance across hybrid networks.
KVH Industries
| Main: | http://www.kvh.com/ |
| Careers: | http://www.kvh.com/About-Us/Careers.aspx |
| HQ: | 50 Enterprise Center, Middletown, RI 02842 Tel: +1 (401) 847 3327 |
| Guidance & Stabilization: | 8412 W. 185th Street, Tinley Park, IL 60487-9237 Tel: +1 (708) 444 2800 |
KVH Industries is a manufacturer of solutions that provide global high-speed Internet, television, and voice services via satellite to mobile users at sea and on land. These solutions include the mini-VSAT broadband network, TracPhone satellite communications systems, and TracVision satellite television systems. KVH is also a premier manufacturer of high performance sensors and integrated inertial systems for defense and commercial guidance and stabilization applications.
L-3 Communications
| Main: | http://www.l-3com.com |
| Careers: | http://www.l-3com.com/careers |
| HQ: | 600 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Tel: +1 (212) 697-1111 |
| Locations: | http://www.l-3com.com/locations.html |
L-3 is a prime contractor in aerospace systems and national security solutions and operates under dozens of independent operating companies that are involved with satellite communications and electronics. A list of all divisions can be found at http://www.l-3com.com/divisions-a-z
Locations: Divisions include Huntsville Operations (AL); Communications Systems West (Salt Lake City, UT); Telemetry-East (Bristol, PA); Cincinnati Electronics (Mason, OH); Narda Satellite Networks (Hauppague, NY); Narda Microwave East (Hauppauge, NY); Space & Navigation (Budd Lake, NJ); Communications Systems—East (Camden, NJ); ESSCO (Ayer, MA); Wolf Coach (Ayer, MA); Electrodynamcis (Rolling Meadows, IL); Coleman Aerospace (Orlando, FL); Datron Advanced Technologies (Simi Valley, CA); Telemetry-West (San Diego, CA).
Leidos
| Main: | https://www.leidos.com/space |
| Career: | https://www.leidos.com/careers |
| HQ: | 11951 Freedom Drive Reston, VA 20190 Tel: +1 (571) 526-6000 |
| Major locations throughout the United States | |
Conducts mission analyses to define requirements; provide design, development, integration and test; and on-orbit support to meet program needs. Leidos scientists, engineers and programmers provide a full range of engineering and integration management support for military and civil space customers. They also provide systems engineering and integration efforts for the U.S. Air Force GPS Directorate, MILSATCOM, and Space-Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) programs. In addition, Leidos provides advanced space mission planning expertise to the U.S. military and to space research centers developing and operating robotic missions in near-earth orbit, those bound for other bodies in the solar system and for missions of human exploration of the Moon and Mars.
Space Sustainment and Operations teams provide support for U.S. Air Force space systems including SBIRS, GPS, and MILSATCOM in the areas of reliability, maintainability, and availability engineering, program environmental, safety, and health evaluation, operational safety, suitability, and effectiveness analyses. Operations support includes efforts to enhance military operations, providing field support, management, training, and developing product capabilities that enable productive incorporation of space-provided information and capabilities including space telemetry downlink operations and analysis, analytical expertise in decomposing data streams, and improving data quality and providing data analysis products.
Exploitation of Space Assets includes imagery and mapping management, and data dissemination to support military and civil operations. It constructs mapping and simulation products; supports NASA, NOAA, EPA, USGS, NGA, and other federal agencies, in a broad range of space, Earth, ocean, and atmospheric applied sciences and research.
Lockheed Martin
| Main: | http://www.lockheedmartin.com/ |
| Career: | http://www.lockheedmartinjobs.com/ |
| HQ: | 6801 Rockledge Dr., Bethesda, MD 20817 Tel: +1 (301) 897-6000 |
Lockheed Martin is the world’s largest defense and space company with operations in more than 500 cities across the United States and internationally in more than 70 nations and territories. With revenues in excess of $40 billion annually and more than 110,000 people worldwide, the firm is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. This includes satellites and technologies for communications, Earth observation and exploration, weather forecasting, planetary and asteroid exploration, and national security; launch vehicles; and ground operations support.
Major space facilities: Denver, CO; Colorado Springs, CO; Sunnyvale, CA; Palo Alto, CA; King of Prussia, PA; Newtown, PA; Huntsville, AL; Houston, TX; Cape Canaveral, FL; New Orleans, LA; Washington, DC-area.
Loral Space & Communications
| Main: | http://www.loral.com |
| Career: | http://www.loral.com/careers/ |
| HQ: | 888 Seventh Ave., 40th Floor, New York, NY 10106 Tel: +1 (212) 697-1105 |
Loral is a satellite communications company engaged, through ownership interests in affiliates, in satellite-based communications services.
Masten Space Systems
| Main: | http://masten.aero/ |
| Career: | http://masten.aero/company/careers/ |
| HQ: | 1570 Sabovich St., Mojave, CA 93501 Tel: +1 (888) 488-8455 |
Masten Space Systems is a small, vertically-integrated aerospace R&D and flight services company creating and deploying reliable, reusable rocket vehicles and components. The company builds regeneratively cooled bipropellant propulsion systems and fully reusable vertical takeoff and landing launch vehicles. Masten focuses on unmanned suborbital flights.
MDA Corporation
| Main: | http://www.mdacorporation.com |
| Career: | http://www.mdacorporation.com/corporate/careers/index.cfm |
| HQ: | Tel: +1 (604) 278-3411 |
MDA offers space-based solutions for direct-to-home television, satellite radio, broadband Internet, and mobile communications and surveillance and intelligence products that offer end-to-end solutions to monitor and manage changes and activities. Divisions manufacture communications satellites, and satellite antenna subsystems, electronics, and payloads; focus on robotics and automation; and perform geospatial analysis. The firm has 4,800 employees operating from 11 locations in the United States, Canada, and internationally.
SSL, A division of MDA
| Main: | http://www.ssloral.com/ |
| HQ: | 3825 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Tel: +1 (650) 852-4000 |
Formerly Space Systems/Loral, SSL is a leading manufacturer of commercial communications satellites to commercial customers across the globe. This business is located in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Pasadena, California, and Houston, Texas.
SSL Federal, LLC, A division of MDA
| Main: | http://www.sslfederal.com/ |
Offers all of MDA’s Surveillance and Communications capability to U.S. government customers. Palo Alto, California, with an office in Chantilly, Virginia.
MDA Information Systems, LLC
| Main: | http://www.mdaus.com/ |
| HQ: | Suite 300 - 820 West Diamond Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 Tel: +1 (240) 833-8200 |
Offers geospatial information services derived from satellite data, as well as ground stations, to U.S. government customers.
MDA Satellite Subsystems
| Main: | http://www.mdacorporation.com/corporate/communications /communication_subsystems.cfm |
| HQ: | 21025 Trans-Canada Hwy, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada, H9X 3R2 Tel: +1 (514) 457-2150 |
Satellite payloads, antenna and electronic subsystems, composite structures, and complete communications satellite solutions.
MDA Robotics and Automation
| Main: | http://www.mdacorporation.com/corporate/surveillance _intelligence/robotics_automation.cfm |
| HQ: | 9445 Airport Road Brampton, ON, Canada, L6S 4J3 Tel: +1 (905) 790-2800 |
MDA Geospatial Services
| Main: | http://gs.mdacorporation.com/ |
| HQ: | 13800 Commerce Parkway Richmond, BC, Canada, V6V 2J3 Tel: +1 (604) 278-3411 |
MDA Surveillance and Intelligence
13800 Commerce Parkway Richmond, BC, Canada, V6V 2J3 Tel: +1 (604) 278-341
MDA provides surveillance and intelligence systems and services that deliver operational information to support critical decision making for government, commercial and business customers. Solutions leverage data from space, airborne, maritime, ground and cyber sources to provide reliable, accurate, time-sensitive information that is embedded in our customers’ business operations. MDA provides customers with two classes of solutions: turnkey operational system solutions and geospatial information services.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
| Main: | http://www.ll.mit.edu/ |
| Career: | http://www.ll.mit.edu/college |
| HQ: | 244 Wood St, Lexington, MA 02420-9108 Tel: +1 (781) 981-5500 |
LLNL primary mission areas include: Space Control, communications systems, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems, microelectronics, air traffic control and meteorology, and prototype engineering.
MOOG
| Main: | http://www.moog.com/ |
| Space & Defense Group: | http://www.moog.com/about/space-defense-group/ |
| Career: | http://www.moog.com/careers/ |
| HQ: | Jamison Road, East Aurora, New York 14052 Tel: +1 (716) 652 2000 |
| Moog Components Group | |
| 1213 North Main Street, Blacksburg, VA 24060 | |
Moog supplies critical components, subsystems and systems to the launch vehicle and spacecraft markets. Our products position commercial and military satellites, position antennas, control propellant flow to and supply rocket engines, provide structures and vibration isolation, conduct communication on spacecraft through avionics, and steer launch and space vehicles.
Nanoracks LLC
| Main: | http://www.nanoracks.com |
| HQ: | 555 Forge River Road, Suite 120, Webster, TX 77598 Tel: +1 (815) 425-8553 |
NanoRacks offers multiple commercial opportunities to use the U.S. National Lab on space station for education or industry research.
Northrop Grumman
| Main: | http://www.northropgrumman.com |
| Career: | http://www.northropgrumman.com/careers/ |
| HQ: | 2980 Fairview Park Drive Falls Church, VA 22042 Tel: +1 (703) 280-2900 |
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
| Main: | http://www.northropgrumman.com/capabilities/ space/Pages/default.aspx |
| HQ: | One Space Park Redondo Beach, CA 90278 Tel: +1 (310) 812-4321 |
Since the dawn of the space age, Northrop Grumman has put good ideas into orbit and beyond: systems engineering, spacecraft manufacturing, precision sensors, space instrument design, ground stations development and orbiting space platforms, propulsion systems, sensors, space science, earth observation/remote sensing, metrology and test equipment, satellite communications, and antennas.
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems
| HQ: | 1580-A West Nursery Road Linthicum, Maryland 21090 Tel: +1 (410) 765-1000 |
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems manufactures, integrates and supports a variety of advanced electronic and maritime systems for U.S. and international customers for national security and non-defense applications. Systems include high performance sensors and intelligence processing and navigation systems operating in all environments from undersea to outer space. Applications include airborne surveillance, space sensing, biochemical detection, intelligence fusing and analysis, inertial navigation, air and missile defense, air traffic control, ship bridge control, communications.
Optimal Satcom
| Main: | http://www.optimalsatcom.com |
| HQ: | 11180 Sunrise Valley Dr, Suite 200, Reston VA 20191 Tel: +1 (703) 657-8800 |
Provides enterprise systems, databases, and tools for satellite capacity planning, and VSAT network design and optimization.
Orbcomm
| Main: | http://www.orbcomm.com |
| Career: | http://orbcomm.applicantstack.com/x/openings |
| HQ: | 395 W Passaic Street, Suite 325, Rochelle Park, NJ 07662 USA |
| Tel: +1 (703) 433.6300 | |
| Innovation and Network Control Center: | |
| 22970 Indian Creek Drive, Suite 300, Sterling, VA 20166 Tel: +1 (703) 433.6300 |
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| Operations: | 125 Business Park Drive, Suite 100, Utica, NY 13502 Tel: +1 (703) 433-6300 |
ORBCOMM’s combination of global satellite and cellular services is a leading provider of global machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions and the only commercial satellite network 100 percent dedicated to M2M. Global M2M solutions are designed to track, monitor and control a variety of powered and unpowered assets in key vertical markets such as transportation and logistics, heavy equipment, oil and gas, maritime and government.
Orbital ATK
| Main: | http://www.orbitalatk.com |
| Careers: | http://www.atk-jobs.com/ |
| HQ: | 45101 Warp Drive, Dulles, VA 20166 Phone: +1 (703) 406-5000 |
OrbitalATK has 3,400+ employees, with 1,700 engineers/scientists.
• Launch Vehicle Design and Manufacturing and Program Offices
3380 South Price Rd., Chandler, AZ 85248
Tel: +1 (480) 899-6000
• Satellite Design and Manufacturing
1440 N. Fiesta Blvd., Gilbert, AZ 85233
Tel: +1 (480) 892-8200
• Technical Services Division
7500 Greenway Center Dr., Suite 700, Greenbelt, MD 20770
Tel: +1 (301) 220-5600
• Southern California Engineering Center
7711 Center Avenue, Suite 600, Huntington Beach, CA 92647
Tel: +1 (714) 677-2428
• Missile Defense Systems Engineering and Manufacturing
305A Quality Circle, Huntsville, AL 35806
Tel: +1 (256) 971-0800
• Launch Vehicle Assembly, Test and Launch
Building 1555 Talo Rd., Vandenberg AFB, CA 93437
Tel: +1 (805) 734-5400
Wallops Island, Virginia—Launch Vehicle Assembly, Testing and Launch; Cargo Logistics Spacecraft Processing; Research Rocket Assembly, Test and Launch -- 32421 Chincoteaque Road New Church, VA 23415
As the industry leader in small- and medium-class space and rocket systems, Orbital provides a complete set of reliable, cost-effective products.
Satellites include
• Geosynchronous-Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites for communications and broadcasting
• Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) spacecraft that perform remote sensing and scientific research
• Spacecraft used for national security missions
• Planetary probes to explore deep space
Launch vehicles include
• Rockets that transport satellites into orbit
• Missile defense interceptor booster vehicles deployed to protect against enemy missile attack
• Target rockets used to test missile defense systems
Paragon Space Development Company
| Main: | http://www.paragonsdc.com/ |
| Career: | http://www.paragonsdc.com/index.php?action=viewPost&postID=40 |
| HQ: | 3481 E. Michigan St., Tucson, AZ 85714 Tel: +1 (520) 903-1000 |
| 1322 Space Park Dr., Suite C150. Houston, TX 77058 Tel: +1 (281) 957-9173 |
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| 813 14th Street, Suite B. Golden, CO 80401 Tel: +1 (520) 981-2911 |
Paragon is the premier provider of environmental controls for extreme and hazardous environments. We design, build, test and operate premier life support systems and leading thermal control products for astronauts, contaminated water divers, and extreme environment adventurers, as well as for unmanned space and terrestrial applications.
Quintech Electronics
| Main: | http://www.quintechelectronics.com |
| HQ: | 250 Airport Road, Indiana, PA 15701 |
| Tel: | +1 (724) 349-1412 |
Designs and manufactures RF signal management communications equipment for satellite, government, wireless, telecom, and broadcast customers.
Raytheon
| Main: | http://www.raytheon.com |
| Career: | http://jobs.raytheon.com/ |
| HQ: | 870 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451-1449 Tel: +1 (781) 522.3000 |
With 63,000 employees worldwide and more than $24 billion in sales, Raytheon is one of the world’s largest defense contractors.
Space and Airborne Systems (El Segundo, CA; Goleta, CA; Annapolis Junction, MD). Builds radars and other sensors for aircraft, spacecraft and ships.
Missile Systems (Tucson, Arizona) Raytheon’s space probes are designed to work faithfully for years in the extreme conditions of deep space or on other planets.
Raytheon Vision Systems (formerly Santa Barbara Research Center, CA) For more than 40 years provided the focal planes and sensors to the remote sensing scientific community for the investigation and characterization of Earth and other planets.
Other Locations: AL; AZ; CO; White Sands, NM; and VA.
Scaled Composites
| Main: | http://www.scaled.com/about/ |
| Careers: | http://www.scaled.com/careers/ |
| HQ: | Hangar 78, Airport 1624 Flight Line, Mojave, CA 93501 Tel: +1 (661) 824-4541 |
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 tests of air and space vehicles.
SES America
| Main: | http://www.ses.com |
| Career: | http://www.ses.com/careers |
| HQ: | 4 Research Way Princeton, NJ 08540-6684 Tel: +1 (609) 987 4000 1129 20th Street, N.W., Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20036 Tel: +1 (202) 478-7100 |
SES U.S. Government Solutions
| HQ: | 11790 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300, Reston, VA 20191 Tel: +1 (703) 610-1000 |
A global satellite operator providing reliable and secure satellite communications solutions to broadcast, telecom, corporate and government customers worldwide, they own and operate a fleet of 53 geostationary satellites that are complemented by a network of teleports and offices located around the globe.
Sierra Nevada
| Main: | http://www.sncorp.com/ |
| Career: | https://careers.sncorp.com/ |
| HQ: | 444 Salomon Circle, Sparks, NV 89434 Tel: +1 (775) 331-0222 |
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems
| HQ: | 1722 Boxelder Street, Suite 102, Louisville, CO 80027 Tel: +1 (303) 530-1925 |
Orbital Technologies Corporation
| http://www.orbitec.com | |
| HQ: | 1212 Fourier Drive, Madison, WI 53717 Tel: +1 (608) 827-5000 |
SpaceDev, Inc. (California Division)
| http://www.spacedev.com | |
| HQ: | 13855 Stowe Drive, Poway, CA 92064 Tel: +1 (858) 375-2000 |
MicroSat Systems, Inc.
| http://www.microsatsystems.com | |
| HQ: | 1722 Boxelder Street, Suite 102, Louisville, CO 80027 Tel: +1 (303) 530-1925 |
SNC is a prime systems integrator and electronic systems provider. Since its founding in 1963, the company has focused on high-technology electronics, avionics, and communications systems. Renewable Energy, Telemedicine, Nanotechnology, Cyber, Net-Centric Operations, Microsatellites and Human Spaceflight. Our capabilities range from spacecraft actuators that power the Mars rovers, to hybrid rocket technologies that powered the first commercial astronaut to space, and from microsatellites controlled by the Internet to Dream Chaser, a winged and piloted orbital commercial spacecraft.
Four product lines include the following:
Spacecraft Systems provides small satellites to meet commercial, civil, and military mission requirements using common bus structures and components that are rapidly customized as needed for different mission applications.
Propulsion Systems offers safe, green, reliable and low-cost propulsion solutions for space vehicles, satellites and small to medium launch vehicle propulsion systems.
Space Exploration Systems is leading an effort to create a low-cost, safe commercial crew transportation service to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station .
Space Technologies supplies critical components to such important national security programs as Advanced EHF, Mobile User Objective System, Space-Based Infrared System, and commercial imagery systems (GeoEye, Ikonos, Worldview). Spacecraft deployable systems, electrical power systems, thermal control systems, pointing systems and motion control, electronics, and mechanical and structural systems.
Sirius XM
| Main: | http://www.siriusxm.com/ |
| Career: | http://www.siriusxm.com/careers |
| HQ: | 1221 Ave of the Americas, 36th floor, NY, NY 10020 Tel: +1 (212) 584-5100 |
Sirius XM Holdings is a broadcasting company that provides two satellite radio services operating in the U.S., Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio. Sirius XM Canada, an affiliate company, provides service in Canada.
Southwest Research Institute
| Main: | http://www.swri.org/ |
| Career: | http://www.swri.org/HR/default.htm |
| HQ: | 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, Texas 78228-0510 Tel: +1 (210) 684-5111 |
SwRI’s 10 technical divisions offer a wide range of technical expertise and services in such areas as chemistry, space science, nondestructive evaluation, automation, engine design, mechanical engineering, and electronics. For more than three decades, SwRI has been a recognized leader in space science research as well as in the development of spacecraft instrumentation, avionics and electronics for both government and industry. The Space Science and Engineering Division’s scientific staff is active in a variety of research areas: heliospheric and solar physics; terrestrial and planetary magnetospheres; planetary geology and atmospheres; comets, asteroids, and other small solar system bodies; planetary system origins and formation; and high-energy astrophysics.
Space Adventures Ltd
| Main: | http://www.spaceadventures.com/ |
| HQ: | 8245 Boone Boulevard, Suite 570, Vienna, VA 22182 Tel: +1 (703) 524.7172 |
Founded in 1998, Space Adventures is the world’s premier private spaceflight company and the only company currently providing opportunities for actual private spaceflight and space tourism.
Space Dynamics Lab
| Main: | http://www.sdl.usu.edu/index |
| Careers: | http://www.sdl.usu.edu/employment/ |
| HQ: | 1695 North Research Park Way, North Logan, Utah 84341 Tel: +1 (435) 713-3400 |
SDL is a nonprofit research corporation and one of 14 University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) in the nation. Its core areas of expertise include: space-rated instruments and payloads, calibration; cryogenic and thermal management, small satellites and satellite systems; systems engineering, upper atmospheric measurements and modeling; sensor system performance modeling and simulation; data handling compression, and analysis; and ground stations and exploitation software. Field offices: Albuquerque, NM; Bedford, MA; Huntsville, AL; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Washington, DC.
Spaceport America
| Main: | http://www.spaceportamerica.com |
| HQ: | 901 E University Ave, Suite 9652, Las Cruces, NM 88001 Tel: +1 (575) 267-8500 |
Home to Virgin Galactic White Knight 2 and SpaceShip 2, Space X Falcon 9R, and suborbital launches.
SpaceQuest Ltd
| Main: | http://www.spacequest.com |
| HQ: | 3554 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 103. Fairfax, VA 22030 Tel: +1 (703) 424-7801 |
Provider of microsatellite technologies, systems and services
SpaceX
| Main: | http://www.spacex.com |
| Careers: | http://www.spacex.com/careers |
| HQ: | 1 Rocket Road Hawthorne, CA 90250 Tel: +1 (310) 363-6000 |
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
Surrey Satellite US LLC
| Main: | http://www.sst-us.com |
| US HQ: | 345 Inverness Drive South, Suite 100, Englewood, CO 80112 Tel: +1 (303) 790-0653 |
A wholly-owned subsidiary of a UK firm, the office was established in 2008 to address the U.S. market related to small satellite solutions, applications, and services. The firm has complete in-house capabilities to design, manufacture, launch, and operate small satellites focused on remote sensing, science, navigation, and telecommunications. The firm also offers space training and development programs.
Telesat
| Main: | http://www.telesat.com/ |
| Career: | http://www.telesat.com/about-us/careers |
| HQ: | 1601 Telesat Court Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1B 5P4 Tel: +1 (613) 748-0123 |
Telesat is a leading global satellite communications operator with a fleet of more than a dozen satellites that provides solutions worldwide to broadcast, telecom, corporate and government customers. Telesat also manages the operations of satellites for third parties.
Trimble Navigation
| Main: | http://www.trimble.com |
| Careers: | http://www.trimble.com/careers |
| HQ: | 935 Stewart Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Tel: +1 (408) 481-8000 |
Though best known for GPS technology, Trimble integrates a wide range of positioning technologies including GPS, laser, optical and inertial technologies with application software, wireless communications, and services to provide complete commercial solutions; serving a variety of industries including agriculture, engineering and construction, transportation and wireless communications infrastructure.
United Launch Alliance (ULA)
| Main: | http://www.ulalaunch.com/ |
| Careers: | http://www.ulalaunch.com/careers.aspx |
| Galileo Operations Center | 9501 East Panorama Circle, Centennial, CO 80112 Tel: +1 (720) 922-7100 |
Formed in December 2006, United Launch Alliance 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—to provide reliable, cost-efficient space launch services for the U.S. government. ULA program management, engineering, test, and mission support functions are headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Manufacturing, assembly and integration operations are located at Decatur, Alabama, and Harlingen, Texas. Launch operations are located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
UTC Aerospace Systems
| Main: | http://www.utcaerospacesystems.com |
| Careers: | http://www.utcaerospacesystemscareers.com/ |
| Corporate: | United Technologies 1 Financial Plaza, Hartford, CT 06103 Tel: +1 (860) 728-7000 |
| HQ: | UTC Aerospace Systems Four Coliseum Centre 2730 West Tyvola Road, Charlotte, NC 28217 Tel: +1 (450) 677-9411 |
| ISR & Space Systems | 7 Technology Park Dr., Westford, MA 01886-3141 |
| SpaceSuits Engine Systems | 1 Hamilton Road, Windsor Locks, CT 06096-1000 |
| Attitude Determination Subsystem | 100 Wooster Heights Road, Danbury, CT 06810–7589 Phone: +1 (203) 797-5210 |
| SR Systems: | 6600 Gulton Court, N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87109-4407 Tel +1 (505) 938-5096 |
UTC develops and produces advanced technologies for space and defense markets including products from space suits and undersea environmental systems to low-cost satellites and space telescope optics. The firm provides Environmental Control and Life Support Systems on the International Space Station, including the space suit; space and Mission Critical Electronics for data acquisition and command and control electronics for launch vehicle products including Command and data handling units, Data acquisition and management systems, Delay memory, Filter assemblies, Pre modulation signal conditioning, and Power regulation and distribution. Space capabilities and products include Tactical ISR Satellites; Electro-Optical Payloads; Precision Optics and Optical Subsystems; Actuation Systems; Launch Vehicle and Satellite Electronics. Space Attitude Control Sensors & Systems include Star trackers, Earth sensors, Magnetrometers, reaction control wheels, and Attitude determination and control interface.
Vacco Industries
| Main: | http://www.vacco.com |
| Careers: | http://www.vacco.com/careers/overview |
| HQ: | 10350 Vacco Street South, El Monte, CA 91733 Tel: +1 (626) 443-7121 |
VACCO Industries is a leading designer and manufacturer of specialty valves, filters and advanced fluid control products—offering innovative engineered solutions to critical missions for defense, space, and commercial markets.
Viasat
| Main: | http://www.viasat.com |
| Careers: | https://www.viasat.com/careers |
| HQ: | 6155 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA 92009 Tel: +1 (760) 476-2200 |
| Comsat Labs: | 20511 Seneca Meadows Parkway, Germantown, MD 20876 Tel: +1 (240) 686-4400 |
| VSAT Networks: | 725 Breckinridge Plaza, Duluth, GA 30096 Tel: +1 (678) 924-2400 |
ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other digital communications products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location. Products include satellite networks for fixed-site and mobile communications; satellite antenna systems; wireless datalinks and terminals for combat situational awareness; cybersecurity and information assurance for military networking and encrypted data storage; communication microprocessor chipsets; satellite network and RF system design; global mobile satellite services for aircraft, vehicles, and seagoing vessels; and satellite Internet access and other broadband services for consumers, business, and government.
Virgin Galactic
| Main: | http://www.virgingalactic.com/ |
| Careers: | https://careers-virgingalactic.icims.com/jobs/intro?branding=live |
Virgin Galactic is comprised of hundreds of dedicated and passionate professionals—including rocket scientists, engineers, and designers from around the world—united in creating something new and lasting: the world’s first commercial spaceline.
Wyle Laboratories
| Main: | http://www.wyle.com |
| Careers: | http://www.wyle.com/careers.html |
| Science, Technology and Engineering Group HQ | |
| 1290 Hercules Ave,. Houston, TX 77058-2769 Tel: +1 (281) 212.1200 |
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Wyle is a leading provider of specialized engineering, professional, scientific and technical services to the federal government with 4,000+ employees at 50-plus locations nationwide. The Science, Technology and Engineering Group provides innovative solutions for life sciences, pilot and health crew training and support, aerospace medicine, scientific services, and specialized engineering. Wyle experts have supported every U.S. manned space mission since the 1960s with expertise in specialized flight medicine services; astronaut/aircrew health and performance; climate prediction, atmospheric modeling and data sciences; life sciences with an emphasis on challenging environments such as micro-gravity of space, high-g and high altitude aircraft, medical systems engineering and integration; commercial spaceflight services; and spaceflight hardware production and certification
XCOR Aerospace
| Main: | http://www.xcor.com/ |
| Careers: | http://xcor.com/jobs/ |
| HQ: | PO Box 1163, Mojave CA, 93502 Tel: +1 (661) 824-4714 |
XCOR Aerospace is a small, privately-held California corporate focused on the research, development, project management, production and maintenance of safer, more reliable, reusable suborbital and orbital launch vehicles (RLVs), rocket engines and rocket propulsion systems.
X Prize Foundation
| Main: | http://www.xprize.org |
| Careers: | http://www.xprize.org/about/careers |
| HQ: | 800 Corporate Pointe, Suite 350, Culver City, CA 90230 Tel: +1 (310) 741-4880 |
Founded in 1995, XPRIZE is the leading organization solving the world’s Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prizes in five areas: Learning; Exploration; Energy & Environment; Global Development; and Life Sciences.
XTAR
| Main: | http://xtar.com |
| HQ: | 2551 Dulles View Drive, Suite 300, Herndon, VA 20171-5219 Tel: +1 (571) 281-3570 |
A small commercial satellite operator exclusively providing services in the X-band frequency range, which is the communications cornerstone for military, diplomatic, humanitarian and emergency disaster response operations.