List of Aerospace Engineering Companies
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Commercialization of space, Space exploration, Effect of spaceflight on the human body4Frontiers Corporation is an American space commerce company, founded in 2005.
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Aerospace EngineeringAero Controls, Inc. is an aerospace engineering company founded in October 1984 by John Titus, the CEO and President of the Company, headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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Airbus SAS
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Aerospace EngineeringASRC Aerospace Corporation is a subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. ASRC Aerospace is an enterprise formed in November 1997. Headquartered in Greenbelt, Maryland, ASRC Aerospace supports 15 major contracts providing a base of over 1000+ personnel. The company's segments are multiple operating units engaging primarily in U.S. Government contracts. ASRC Aerospace at one time had about 100 projects at NASA Kennedy Space Center. These projects included studies on lightning strikes and how the associated magnetism could affect launch operations for the shuttle fleet. The company also has designed lightning arrestors to protect the Ares rocket, which was planned to replace the Space Shuttle prior to the Obama administration's decision to cancel the Constellation Program. The company also has completed the analysis and design of a concept for an electrostatic shield to protect a lunar base. ASRC Aerospace is the prime contractor for the University-Affiliated Spaceport Technology Development Contract to design ground support equipment and develop new technologies. The company has been engaged in designing the new mobile launcher and modifying the launch pads.
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Telecommunications, Arms industry, AerospaceAviation Industry Corporation of China is a Chinese state-owned aerospace and defense company.
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Arms industry, Aerospace, Information securityBAE Systems plc is a British multinational defence, security and aerospace company headquartered in London in the United Kingdom and with operations worldwide. It is among the world's largest defence contractors; it ranked as the second-largest based on applicable 2012 revenues. Its largest operations are in the United Kingdom and United States, where its BAE Systems Inc. subsidiary is one of the six largest suppliers to the US Department of Defense. Other major markets include Australia, India and Saudi Arabia. The company was formed on 30 November 1999 by the £7.7 billion merger of two British companies; Marconi Electronic Systems – the defence electronics and naval shipbuilding subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc – and British Aerospace – an aircraft, munitions and naval systems manufacturer. BAE Systems is the successor to various aircraft, shipbuilding, armoured vehicle, armaments and defence electronics companies, including The Marconi Company, the first commercial company devoted to the development and use of radio; A.V.
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Commercialization of space, Aerospace, Space explorationBeal Aerospace was a launch vehicle development company, founded in February 1997 by Andrew Beal, president of Beal Bank in Dallas, Texas. The goal of the company was to build and operate a privately developed heavy lift orbital launch vehicle. It ceased operations on October 23, 2000.
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Aerospace EngineeringThe Beriev Aircraft Company, formerly Beriev Design Bureau, is a Russian aircraft manufacturer, specializing in amphibious aircraft. The company was founded in Taganrog in the 1934 as OKB-49 by Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev, and since that time has designed and produced more than 20 different models of aircraft for civilian and military purposes, as well as customized models. Today the Company employs some 3000 specialists and is developing and manufacturing amphibious aircraft. Pilots flying Beriev seaplanes have broken 228 world aviation records. The records are registered and acknowledged by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. In November 1989 BERIEV Aircraft Company became the only defense industry enterprise to win the Prize for Quality awarded by the Government of Russia. In mid-2002, Irkut raised its 40 percent holding in the Beriev Design Bureau to a controlling stake.
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Aerospace, Effect of spaceflight on the human body, Space stationBigelow Aerospace is an American space technology startup company, based in North Las Vegas, Nevada that is pioneering work on expandable space station modules. Bigelow Aerospace was founded by Robert Bigelow in 1998. and is funded in large part by the fortune Bigelow gained through his ownership of the hotel chain Budget Suites of America. By 2013, Bigelow had invested US$250 million in the company. Bigelow has stated on multiple occasions that he is prepared to fund Bigelow Aerospace with about US$500 million through 2015 in order to achieve launch of full-scale hardware. Bigelow is pioneering a new market in a flexible and configurable set of space habitats. Moreover, industry observers have noted that Bigelow is demonstrating audacity to pioneer such a market "in a capital-intensive, highly-regulated industry like spaceflight."
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Aerospace, Space tourism (Personal Spaceflight), Aerospace EngineeringBlue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal of dramatically lower cost and increased reliability. It is employing an incremental approach from suborbital to orbital flight, with each developmental step building on its prior work. The company motto is "Gradatim Ferociter", Latin for "Step-by-Step, Ferociously". Blue origin is developing a variety of technologies, with a focus on rocket-powered Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing vehicles for access to suborbital and orbital space. Initially focused on sub-orbital spaceflight, the company has built and flown a testbed of its New Shepard spacecraft design at their Culberson County, Texas facility. According to company statements, it initially planned on placing the New Shepard in commercial suborbital tourist service in 2010 with flights about once a week. In 2008 the publicized timetable stated that Blue Origin will fly unmanned in 2011, and manned in 2012. As of 2013, the company website makes no statements about the date of its first flights.
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Boeing Co
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Aerospace, Aerospace EngineeringBombardier Aerospace is a division of Bombardier Inc.. The company competes with Brazilian rival Embraer for the title of the third largest aircraft manufacturer after Boeing and Airbus. It is headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada.
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Rail transport, Aerospace EngineeringBombardier Inc. is a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée on January 29, 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec. Starting as a maker of snow machines or snowmobiles, over the years it has been a large manufacturer of regional aircraft, business jets, mass transportation equipment, recreational equipment and a provider of financial services. Bombardier is a Fortune Global 500 conglomerate company. Its headquarters are in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bombardier Inc. Corporate Headquarters are at 800 René-Lévesque Boulevard West, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3B 1Y8.
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Spacecraft, Aerospace EngineeringBristol Spaceplanes Limited was formed in 1991 to provide technical assistance and consultancy to commercial organisations and aerospace companies interested in commercial opportunities in space. Since then it has prepared plans to develop the Ascender sub-orbital spaceplane, designed in-house from off-the-shelf technology.
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Aerospace EngineeringCAE Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of simulation technologies, modelling technologies and training services to airlines, aircraft manufacturers, defense customers, mining companies and healthcare specialists. In 2012 the company's annual revenue was CAD $1.82 billion. CAE was founded in 1947, and has manufacturing operations and training facilities in 20 countries.
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Cessna Aircraft Company
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Dassault Aviation
Aerospace EngineeringDassault Aviation is a French aircraft manufacturer of military, regional, and business jets, a subsidiary of Dassault Group. It was founded in 1929 by Marcel Bloch as Société des Avions Marcel Bloch or "MB". After World War II, Marcel Bloch changed his name to Marcel Dassault, and the name of the company was changed to Avions Marcel Dassault on 20 January 1947. In 1971 Dassault acquired Breguet, forming Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation. In 1990 the company was renamed Dassault Aviation. -
Embraer Aircraft Holding Corp
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Aviation, Aerospace EngineeringFlightSafety International is a provider of professional aviation training, simulation equipment and software, operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, who has owned the company since 1996. The company provides training for fixed and rotary wing pilots, flight attendants, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians. FlightSafety serves both corporate and commercial customers.
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Fluor Corp.
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Manufacturing, Aerospace, PhotonicsThe National Optics Institute is a Quebec City-based private non-profit corporation founded in 1988. INO is a technological design and development firm specialized in optic and photonic solutions for SMEs and large corporations. It claims to be home to the largest concentration of skill in the field and serves clients of all sizes from all parts of Canada and around the world. INO offers a range of integrated services in optics and photonics to clients of all descriptions in every range of industrial activity. It also possesses a variety of technologies and innovative processes based on an IP portfolio. INO has 147 patents granted. In addition, over 103 other patent applications have been submitted and are awaiting approval. INO was recognized as a Center of Excellence and Innovation by the Canadian government.
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Aerospace EngineeringIntegrated Dynamics is a private company in Pakistan that designs, manufactures and exports various types of unmanned aerial vehicles. ID also provides consultancy and turn-key project commissioning for UAV systems.
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Aerospace EngineeringInterorbital Systems Corporation is an American aerospace company based in Mojave, California. It was founded in 1996 by Roderick and Randa Milliron, who also co-founded Trans Lunar Research. Interorbital Systems is currently working on a line of launch vehicles aimed at winning the Google Lunar X Prize. The company was also a competitor for both the Ansari X-Prize and America's Space Prize.
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Kelowna Flightcraft Ltd.
Aerospace EngineeringKelowna Flightcraft Ltd. is an Approved Maintenance Organization which operates two Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul facilities in Canada, one in Kelowna, British Columbia, and the other in Hamilton, Ontario. Kelowna Flightcraft also owns Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter, a Canada-based charter company, and Allied Wings, contract operator of the Canadian Forces Contracted Flying Training and Support program. -
Radio and Television Broadcasting and Communications Equipment, Aerospace EngineeringL-3 Communications Holdings is an American company that supplies command and control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems and products, avionics, ocean products, training devices and services, instrumentation, space, and navigation products. Its customers include the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Government intelligence agencies, NASA, aerospace contractors and commercial telecommunications and wireless customers. L-3 is headquartered in Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York City.
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Aerospace, Information security, Aerospace EngineeringLockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, DC, area. Lockheed Martin employs 116,000 people worldwide. Marillyn Hewson is the current President and Chief Executive Officer. Lockheed Martin is one of the world's largest defense contractors; in 2009, 74% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales. It received 7.1% of the funds paid out by the Pentagon. Lockheed Martin operates in five business segments. These comprise Aeronautics, Information Systems & Global Solutions, Missile and Fire Control, Mission Systems and Training, and Space Systems. In 2009 US government contracts accounted for $38.4 billion, foreign government contracts $5.8 billion, and commercial and other contracts for $900 million. In both 2009 and 2008 the company topped the list of US federal government contractors.
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Aerospace, Aerospace EngineeringFounded in 1943, Marotta Controls, Inc. is a technology businesses in New Jersey, specializing in the design, manufacture and integration of precision control components and systems. It offers valves and manifolds, and sub-systems integrating electronic controllers and power supplies, such as pneumatic weapon ejection systems, control actuation systems and IR missile seeker cooling systems.
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Automation, Aerospace EngineeringMoog is an American worldwide designer and manufacturer of motion and fluid controls and control systems for applications in aerospace, defense, industrial and medical device markets. Their products and systems include military and commercial aircraft flight controls, satellite positioning controls, controls for steering tactical and strategic missiles, thrust vector controls for space launch vehicles and controls for positioning gun barrels and automatic ammunition loading for military combat vehicles. They are also used in industrial applications, including injection molding machines for the plastics markets, metal forming, power generating turbines, simulators used to train pilots and certain medical applications. They operate under five segments; Aircraft Controls, Space and Defense Controls, Industrial Controls, Components, Surveillance Camera Systems and Medical Devices. Principal manufacturing facilities are located in the United States, including facilities in New York, California, Utah, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania, and in Germany, Italy, England, Japan, the Philippines, Ireland, Costa Rica and India.
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Aerospace, Search, DetectionNorthrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by Northrop's 1994 purchase of Grumman. The company was the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2015. Northrop Grumman employs over 68,000 people worldwide. It reported revenues of $25.218 billion in 2012. Northrop Grumman ranks No. 72 on the 2011 Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations and ranks in the top ten military-friendly employers. It is headquartered in West Falls Church, Virginia.
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Odyssey Space Research
Aerospace EngineeringOdyssey Space Research, LLC is a small business based in Houston, Texas near NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center providing engineering research and analysis services. This start-up in the space industry founded in November 2003 has already won major contracts and is the only private company working on the 5 next human-rated spacecraft. -
Aerospace, Other Ordnance and Accessories Manufacturing, Aerospace EngineeringPatria is a Finnish provider of defence, security and aviation life-cycle support services and technology solutions. Patria is owned by the state of Finland and Airbus Group, but Airbus agreed to sell their stake to the government in December 2014.
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Aerospace Engineering
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Aerospace EngineeringReaction Engines Limited is a British aerospace company based in Oxfordshire, England.
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Technology, Sports, ArtsThe Rocket Racing League was a racing league that plans to use rocket-powered aircraft to race a closed-circuit air racetrack. Founded in 2005, the league made its first public flights in 2008 and is working to begin regular racing seasons. The "rocket racers" are slated to compete in the air and on a virtual racetrack easily viewed by a live audience as well as projected on large screen and handheld electronic displays. Four prototype canard-style Rocket Racer aircraft have been built since 2001. The league had planned to hold its inaugural race season in 2008 with four races, but encountered financial difficulties that delayed fielding of Rocket Racers by the six teams that had been previously announced. With the addition of venture capital funding in mid-2009, technology development continued and one exhibition occurred in 2010, with another round of plans for an inaugural season of races in 2011. The 2011 races were, in the end, never scheduled.
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Aerospace, Aerospace EngineeringShort Brothers plc is an aerospace company, usually referred to as Shorts, now based at Belfast, Northern Ireland. Shorts was founded in 1908 in London, and was the first company in the world to make production aircraft. It was particularly notable for its flying boat designs manufactured into the 1950s. In 1943 Shorts was nationalised and later denationalised, and in 1948 moved from its main base at Rochester, Kent to Belfast. In the 1960s, Shorts mainly produced turboprop airliners, major components for aerospace primary manufacturers, and missiles for the British armed forces. In 1989 Shorts was bought by Bombardier, and is the largest manufacturing concern in Northern Ireland. Today, the company's products include aircraft components, engine nacelles and aircraft flight control systems for its parent company Bombardier Aerospace, and for Boeing, Rolls-Royce Deutschland, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney.
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Aerospace, Aerospace EngineeringSpace Exploration Technologies Corporation is an American space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California, USA. It was founded in 2002 by former PayPal entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles, both of which were designed from conception to eventually become reusable, and the Dragon spacecraft which is flown into orbit by the Falcon 9 launch vehicle to supply the International Space Station with cargo. A manned version of Dragon is in development. SpaceX's achievements include the first privately funded, liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit on 28 September 2008; the first privately funded company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft on 9 December 2010; and the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station on 25 May 2012. The launch of SES-8, on 3 December 2013, was the first SpaceX delivery into geosynchronous orbit.
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ST Engineering
Aerospace Engineering, Arms ManufacturersST Engineering Ltd is an integrated engineering group in the aerospace, electronics, military contracting and marine sectors. Headquartered in Singapore, the group reported revenues of $5.05b in FY2007. With a market capitalisation of about $10b, it ranks among the largest companies listed on the Singapore Exchange. ST Engineering has more than 18,000 employees worldwide, and over 100 subsidiaries and associated companies in 21 countries and 35 cities. -
Aerospace, Aerospace EngineeringSurrey Satellite Technology Ltd, or SSTL, is a spin-off company of the University of Surrey, now majority-owned by EADS Astrium, that builds and operates small satellites. Its satellites began as amateur radio satellites known by the UoSAT name or by an OSCAR designation. SSTL cooperates with the University's Surrey Space Centre, which does research into satellite and space topics. SSTL moved into remote sensing services with the launch of the Disaster Monitoring Constellation in 2002 and an associated child company, DMC International Imaging. SSTL also adopted the Internet Protocol for the DMC satellites it builds and operates, migrating from use of the AX.25 protocol popular in amateur radio. The CLEO Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit, on board the UK-DMC satellite along with a network of payloads, takes advantage of this adoption of the Internet Protocol. SSTL is also developing a new Geostationary Minisatellite Platform-Transfer orbit variant aimed at the telecommunications market under the brand name SSTL-900. The University sold a 10% share of SSTL to SpaceX in January 2005. It then agreed to sell its majority share to EADS Astrium in April 2008.
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Thales Training & Simulation
Aerospace EngineeringThales Training & Simulation Ltd. is a multinational company which manufactures simulators, including full flight simulators and military simulators, and provides related training and support services. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Thales Group. -
Aerospace EngineeringUnited Launch Alliance is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. ULA was formed in December 2006 by combining the teams at these companies which provide spacecraft launch services to the government of the United States. U.S. government launch customers include both the Department of Defense and NASA, as well as other organizations. ULA provides launch services using three expendable launch systems – Delta II, Delta IV and Atlas V. The Atlas and Delta launch system families have been used for more than 50 years to carry a variety of payloads including weather, telecommunications and national security satellites, as well as deep space and interplanetary exploration missions in support of scientific research. ULA has also provided launch services for non-government satellites. Beginning in October 2014, ULA announced that they intended to undertake a substantial restructuring of the company, its products and processes, in the coming years in order to decrease launch costs.
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Aerospace EngineeringUnited Space Alliance is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company, equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and, as of 2008 employed approximately 8,800 people in Texas, Florida, Alabama, and the Washington, D.C. area.
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Aerospace EngineeringUP Aerospace, Inc. is a private spaceflight corporation based out of Denver, Colorado. UP Aerospace provides ultra-low cost space access and payload transportation for corporate, military and educational payloads, via their SpaceLoft XL sounding rocket launch vehicles.
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Aerospace EngineeringVT Systems, also known as Vision Technologies Systems, is an integrated engineering group providing solutions and services in the aerospace, electronics, land systems, and marine sectors. It has 6,300 professional and technical employees. VT Systems is the United States corporate entity of ST Engineering, a global defense contractor.
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Manufacturing, Aerospace EngineeringWoodward, Inc. is the world's oldest and largest independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control systems and control system components for aircraft engines, industrial engines and turbines, power generation and mobile industrial equipment. Woodward, Inc. was founded as The Woodward Governor Company by Amos Woodward in 1870. Woodward Governor Company initially made controls for waterwheels and then moved to hydro turbines. In the 1920s and 1930s Woodward began designing controls for diesel and other reciprocating engines and for industrial turbines. Also in the 1930s, Woodward developed a governor for variable-pitch aircraft propellers. And when the United States military's first turbine-powered aircraft successfully flew, its GE engine had a Woodward control. Starting in the 1950s, Woodward began designing electronic controls, first analog and then digital units.
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Human spaceflight, Commercialization of space, Rocket engineXCOR Aerospace is an American private rocket engine and spaceflight development company based at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California. XCOR was formed by former members of the Rotary Rocket rocket engine development team in September, 1999. XCOR is headed by Jeff Greason, who is the CEO.
