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Space Agencies

International Launch Services – ILS

Type: Commercial Abbreviation: ILS Administration: Kirk Pysher Founded: 1995 Country: USA International Launch Services, Inc. (ILS) is a joint venture with exclusive rights to the worldwide sale of commercial Angara and Proton rocket launch services. Proton launches take place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan while Angara is planned to launch from the Plesetsk and […]

Interstellar Technologies – ISTECH

Interstellar Technologies – ISTECH

Abbreviation: ISTECH Administration: President: Takahiro Inagawa Founded: 2005 Country: JPN Interstellar Technologies, Inc. (Japanese: インターステラテクノロジズ（株） Hepburn: Intāsutera Tekunorojizu (kabu)) is a Japanese NewSpace company. It is a rocket spacelaunch company developing the MOMO launcher. Its stated goal is to reduce the cost of access to space. In 2017, it became the first Japanese company to […]

Intuitive Machines –

Type: Commercial Administration: President: Steve Altemus Founded: 2013 Spacecraft: Nova-C Country: USA Intuitive Machines, Inc. is aAmerican company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company is completing its lunar program which will provide lunar surface access, lunar orbit delivery, and communications at lunar distance.

Iranian Space Agency – ISA

Type: Government Abbreviation: ISA Administration: Morteza Barari Founded: 2004 Launchers: Safir | Simorgh Country: IRN The Iranian Space Agency is Iran’s governmental space agency. Iran became an orbital-launch-capable nation in 2009. Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, which was set up […]

Isar Aerospace – ISAR

Type: Private Abbreviation: ISAR Administration: CEO: Daniel Metzler Founded: 2018 Launchers: Spectrum Country: DEU Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. The company was founded in 2018.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force – IRGCAF

Type: Government Abbreviation: IRGCAF Administration: Brigadier General Ali Jafarabadi Founded: 1985 Launchers: Qased Country: IRN The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force is the strategic missile, air, and space force within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran. It was renamed from the IRGC Air Force into the IRGC Aerospace Force in 2009.

iSpace – iSpace

Type: Commercial Abbreviation: iSpace Founded: 2016 Launchers: Hyperbola-1 Country: CHN i-Space is a Chinese private space launch company based in Beijing and founded in October 2016.